Sentence examples for always barely from inspiring English sources

"The whole thing is implausible," White concluded, and New Yorkers are always barely escaping "mass hysteria".

But they are always barely one step ahead of pursuing coast guard cutters and policemen.

American journalists know this only too well when reporting on foreign leaders — their default mode with Africans, for instance, is nearly always barely concealed disdain.

Ward's regionalism, grounded in rurality and in poverty, gives us the images — often beautiful, always barely hiding danger — that recur throughout her books: shushing pines; skin and garments red with mud; animals wild, domestic, or waiting for the slaughter.

Only a few observed comets have hyperbolic orbit solutions, and those are always just barely hyperbolic with eccentricities up to about 1.0575.

Intertwined, these two dialogues form a shadow of an explanation — one that runs on nightmare logic, inexorable but elusive, and always just barely out of reach.

Jim Shamburger of Ore City, Tex., whose carpentry company employs three workers, said that "when it comes to paying those quarterly taxes on my employees, I always just barely have it".

Between draws and the points system, this helps to keep the carny folk always just barely equalling out, always indentured their employers.

But that's simply a function of a system that is set up in a way that makes the NCAA appear as if it is always just barely scraping by, despite big-time money in the form of ticket sales, TV deals and many other revenue sources.

Cromwell is always lurking, barely visible, on the edge of things: dressed in black.

I tried looking at the glasses, and the eyes, from different angles, and the smile is always there, barely perceptible, but definitely present.