Sentence examples for barely able to close from inspiring English sources
Thompson said that he was barely able to close and latch the breechlock before the gun discharged on its own.
Gaultier took the fourth in 14 minutes to force a decider, but Matthew's fitness and mental strength ultimately overwhelmed the Frenchman, who was barely able to walk by the closing stages.
Here the 24-year-old laboured in a central-midfield position, barely able to get close to the buzzing, confidence-brimming players in red around him, and as he chased shadows Sigurdsson may well have mused on what could have been.
He was, in fact, barely able to stand, as he just kept opening and closing his mouth.
The strong storm surge surpassed the floodgate to the Midtown Tunnel while workers attempted to close the gate; about of water flooded the tunnel entirely in just 40 minutes, with the workers barely able to escape.
Wild-type isolates from equatorial locations where the magnitude of the vertical component was close (or below) 0.2 Gauss, were either unable or barely able to magnetotax (Supplementary file 1A).
I remember watching in horror as she held you close one last time, kissing your tiny cheeks, and hurrying away, barely able to breathe or see through her tears.
