Sentence examples for barely able to read from inspiring English sources

Certainly he was unintellectual, without conservatory training and barely able to read music.

Tony Pidgley, the Berkeley Group boss, was raised by Travellers and left school barely able to read or write.

Even then, employers say that many graduates emerge inarticulate, unable to think critically and barely able to read or write.Black South Africans generally do much worse than whites.

But by the time his aides began passing out "Don Quixote" and "Great Expectations" to schoolchildren barely able to read, it was clear something was different.

An educationally subnormal Kashmiri and the youngest of seven, Mr Hussain dropped out of school at 13, barely able to read or write.

Born just outside Nashville in 1874, the son of freed slaves, barely able to read or write, Edmondson worked as a railroad laborer, then as a hospital janitor.

He himself was barely able to say.

You know, they're barely able to take care of themselves".

All this after leaving school at 14 and barely being able to read and write when well into his 20s.

Many have only a few years of formal schooling and may barely be able to read and write.

Simply because he was able to read a speech from the teleprompter -- a speech that was barely coherent and full of lies - you'd have thought he had just delivered the Gettysburg Address.