Sentence examples similar to barely adequate answer from inspiring English sources

Voices came from behind me, inquiring if I was well, if I had come far, if I was hungry, and I replied as best I could, though I was aware that my answers were barely adequate.

Service was barely adequate.

But that in itself is barely adequate.

But that isn't an adequate answer.

Few think that is an adequate answer.

But it is not an adequate answer.

By local standards, my porch is barely adequate.

Blunt knives, of course, were barely adequate for most meats.

The four-wheel disc brakes, however, feel barely adequate.

"Isolationist" seems a barely adequate description for Kennedy's worldview.

"I cannot say we have an adequate answer," he said.