Sentence examples for barely as a from inspiring English sources

The greatest fictional fighter of all time, a man whose name is synonymous with victory, and the chapter of his life in which he actually reigns as champ registers barely as a footnote.

By the early '90s, he had given up on writing, if not on thinking, and was making a living, almost barely, as a clerk in a video store in Greenwich Village.

Though that could be tolerated, barely, as a nasty idiosyncrasy, everything changed after the Germans invaded on April 9, 1940, and Hamsun urged his countrymen to throw down their weapons and coöperate.

Over the years he's kept the igloo standing, just barely, as a tribute to his old friend Smith and with the hope that perhaps someone more flush with cash than him can turn the quixotic dream into reality.

But Maud herself is barely present as a realized character, just as Ellie is only dimly perceptible through her halo.

A decade ago, Bolivia barely figured as a supplier of Brazil nuts.

But it barely registered as a blip.

Even that barely qualifies as a strategy.

It was barely recognisable as a flag.

Some would say he barely lives as a Muslim.

For one thing, Benghazi barely qualifies as a scandal.