Sentence examples for barely a bad from inspiring English sources

There was barely a bad shot in the lot.

After all, aside from a Christmas day scrap with a member of the public who was blocking his running path, his autobiography has barely a bad word to say about anyone.

That's barely a bad burp these days.

He barely bowled a bad ball; he beat the outside edge frequently, particularly when the bat was held by Warner in the first hour.

Walk up and down the paddock and it is not hard to find people who will say Alonso is a disruptive influence and hard to handle, while, equally, there are also those who have worked closely with him who will barely say a bad word about him, and insist that he is "only as difficult as you allow him to be".

23, Atlanta 16: Calm down, Eagle fans, you barely beat a bad Falcon team.

However, there were millions of decent men and women in the Army, and barely a few bad ones.

The gooseberries, attacked by sawfly larvae and only barely edible, were a bad choice that we decided to uproot.

Leaving the college's shiny Frank Gehry opera house (a k a the Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts) dark for such an occasion was unthinkable, so Schumann became a crafty choice: a barely known opera with a bad reputation that might actually, in the right hands, be made worthwhile.

On the phone from L.A., she recalled a comment from a follower who said she was barely holding on after a bad breakup.

It means that we have almost no disposable income and our finances are tight and we're barely saving, but after a bad experience with a home day care (I'm going to just say, "boa constrictors," and leave it at that), and with two more-than-full-time jobs, it's what we have to do.