11 sentences with 'barely'

Example sentences and phrases with the word barely and other words derived from it.

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• « The sofa is so bulky that it barely fits in the living room. »

• « The encyclopedic book is so bulky that it barely fits in my backpack. »

• « The weak light of the sun through the gray clouds barely illuminated the path. »

• « The archaeologist could barely decipher the hieroglyphs that had been carved into the stone; they were in very poor condition. »

• « She woke up startled by the sound of thunder. She barely had time to cover her head with the sheets before the whole house shook. »

• « The population barely made a living from fishing and agriculture. »

• « He felt Mike's neck and barely felt the pulsation of the carotid artery. »

• « Jerry barely lifted his head, licked my hand, stretched out his paws and drifted back into the sweet peace of his dreams. »

• « Susan barely turned to look at her little girl when suddenly a cougar grabbed the little girl by the head and began dragging her away. »

• « The incision in his little patient's skull was barely big enough for me to work with. I asked the nurse for forceps and carefully exposed the tumor. »

• « The tip of the mast barely grazed the first cable. There was an intense sizzle and we cleared the obstacle, but we were rapidly approaching the second wire. »

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