Sentence examples for barely a man from inspiring English sources

A man rearing children in partnership with a woman is barely a man at all, but a man raising kids by himself is perfect.

Prodigies can be a pain, onscreen and off, and Elio — fevered with boyish uncertainties and thrills, though no longer a boy, and already rich in adult accomplishments, yet barely a man — should be an impossible role.

He was barely a man at all, it only seemed that way.

Barely a year later, a man named Adam Clausen faced a roughly equivalent situation.

But the bottle barely missed a man and his dogs.

The troubles turned life-threatening in 1997 when a sodden exterior panel dislodged and fell 20 stories, barely missing a man and his 5-year-old son who were walking below.

Although most of the Danish men I spoke to found Sarah Lund far too terse and miserable to be remotely attractive, there can barely be a man in Britain who's not in love with Sarah Lund.

In 100 days, the right has swallowed two "very sorrys" to the Chinese and several greenish environmental policies (yes, there have been some) with barely a peep.Right man, right jobSo Mr Bush is a conservative and has conservative friends.

Jane Eyre, who has never seen a city, who has barely spoken to a man, is the quintessential young adult in this regard; everything is new to her.

Put another way, a ribbon of stone the length of eight buses, and barely thicker than a man is tall.

Barely a week ago, a young man from Iran took his own life, too.