barely exist
Example Sentences
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Yet, to retreat carries no promise of safety — the rear defensive lines meant to give them cover barely exist, he said.
From Seattle Times • May 1, 2024
For good and for ill, those milk and honey farms would barely exist without the water being channeled in through herculean industrial effort from natural sources like the Colorado River.
From Los Angeles Times • May 15, 2023
On social media, such repercussions barely exist, he says: Liars have little incentive to shut up.
From Science Magazine • Mar. 23, 2022
Accurate, honest film and TV portrayals of Indigenous people in barely exist, which lends an extra level of satisfaction and mirth to watching this show.
From Salon • Aug. 8, 2021
And if you barely exist in people’s minds as another living person then being pointed to, being followed around...these things draw attention to themselves.
From "The Graveyard Book" by Neil Gaiman
