barely

Example Sentences

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Reid said her Parkinson's made it hard for her to write "because I can barely control a mouse".

From BBC

He began as a Royal Academician, became an ardent revolutionary, barely escaped execution after the fall of Robespierre, went on to be Napoleon’s chief propagandist, and ended life a political exile.

From The Wall Street Journal

“It was too small. We could barely get the crew in the door.”

From MarketWatch

It is also an oasis for the poachers and their "mist nets", so thin you can barely see them.

From BBC

Yau said fewer than five repairmen like him remain in Hong Kong practising this "barely profitable" umbrella trade.

From Barron's