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
The population, estimated at around 300,000 people, reduced to a feral existence in a world where shops barely exist and aid never arrives.
From BBC ● Feb. 24, 2024
In the geologic time scale, humans barely exist for the span of a breath and, for most of us, that's just long enough to be born into a cruel world and suffer its grief.
From Salon ● Aug. 27, 2023
In the public sphere, Obama and Thomas barely exist in the same conversations.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 3, 2022
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
