Sentence examples for are barely necessary from inspiring English sources

Friends, the authentic kind, are barely necessary when you have Gucci and the Divine Stylist, Mr. Bissinger's personal shopper at the brand's flagship New York store.

The interesting thing about this edition is that it is presented to us almost entirely without apparatus: only seven brief notes at the end (which are barely necessary), no introduction, no information beyond that on the back cover that the author was a Canadian academic who "is mostly known today for his posthumous novel A Strange Manuscript...".

At the same time transnational scourges like crime, disease and climate change demand a new sort of collaboration that was barely necessary when the modern state was invented in the 17th century.

They are barely profitable".

Some are barely vignettes.

"We are barely living".

Such words are barely reassuring.

Their careers are barely mentioned.

Their wings are barely clipped.

Americans are barely scraping by.

National boundaries are barely acknowledged.