Sentence examples for barely able to speak from inspiring English sources

The children were filthy, malnourished and barely able to speak.

"His back white with snow," she said, barely able to speak because of her laughing.

He arrived in Vermont in August of 2000, barely able to speak English.

(In China, students who perform well in English exams are often barely able to speak it).

"I walked all day and all night," she whispered, barely able to speak.

"I'd pass out, sleep at his flat, then stagger into work barely able to speak.

In prison she remained bewildered, still a teenager and barely able to speak English.

The new film starts with a traumatised Katniss with her neck in a brace and barely able to speak.

The father found the girl in bed with a heavily bandaged jaw and a swollen face, barely able to speak.

Writing in the journal BMJ Case Reports, doctors said the 34-year-old was barely able to speak or swallow.

Mo followed at the age of nine and joined his extended family in Hounslow, barely able to speak English.