Sentence examples for barely able to control from inspiring English sources

He was barely able to control it.

She shivered, barely able to control herself.

The judges were barely able to control the shouting match that followed.

"It doesn't make sense," said James, barely able to control his emotions at today's events.

The army has been barely able to control the main towns and the roads that link them.

Easier, actually, because Lance did not have to dodge frenzied yuppies barely able to control their SUV's while babbling distractedly on their cell phones.

We are all in it together ("it" being the idiot soup of adulthood), baffled and incompetent, barely able to operate our remote controls without assistance.

I was barely able to contain myself".

She is barely able to contain her delight.

Sabot looks like a little boy on Christmas morning, barely able to contain himself.

A week later she called me at 8 p.m., barely able to contain her glee.