Sentence examples for barely appropriate from inspiring English sources

You could see people shaking their heads in dismay at remarks that were barely appropriate for the works outing of a book warehouse union.

More problematic is the use of great photographs in contexts that seem barely appropriate to either the music or the artist's image – why a Weegee image adorns a George Michael album is anyone's guess.

How do Australians hope to make an informed decision on the best outcome for Indigenous people, and the country as a whole, when they are barely exposed to appropriate information from the very people whose lives recognition would affect most?

No specific age is ever given and his last name is barely used, which is appropriate since Fergus's family are "cabin people," as impoverished and isolated a peasantry as ever existed in Western Europe.

If my generation had anything in common as a group (aside from AIDS-phobia: quoth Coolio, " 'A mind is a terrible thing to waste,' that was the slogan/But now it's '95 and it's 'Don't forget the Trojan' "), I would say we were marked by two traits: our dislike of nostalgia and our irritation whenever our barely formed narratives were appropriated and marketed back at us.

I say "turns" because the word "bounces" would definitely not be appropriate – the thing barely rose a foot off the turf on its way through.

The enhancement of loop mRNA accumulation by P38 was so great that loop mRNA in wild type plants was barely detectable at the exposure appropriate for the samples from P38-expressing plants (Figure 4B, lanes 7 9), although it was clearly visible at a 3-fold longer exposure (Figure 4B, image of lanes 7 9 labeled "loop 3x exp").

For this reason systematic development of appropriate services is barely possible.

The hearing barely touched on the underlying issue, namely, is it appropriate for Congress to involve itself so deeply into the working of a regulatory agency?

But the judge, who last week criticized Mr. Ravi for not once apologizing for what he had done, said he would not be an "appropriate" spokesman against bias, given that he had barely acknowledged any wrongdoing.

When cellulose was treated with cellulase in the presence of an appropriate amount of Aspergillus niger cellobiase, cellobiose was barely accumulated.