Sentence examples for barely asked from inspiring English sources

He was barely asked to run by the jockey Kent Desormeaux and buried an overmatched field.

The Giants played poorly Thursday night in their preseason opener, but they were barely asked about that yesterday.

I remember one excruciating meeting at which my interviewer, despite knowing my qualifications and experience before inviting me along, barely asked me a question.

"I barely asked anyone to vote for me".

Because Inventing Mary Martin has nothing on its mind other than sending the subject a love letter (as Justin West projects images of her over her 1913-1990 life span), Adams, Graae, Halliday and Skinner are barely asked to stop short of clutching their hearts as illustration of their devotion--and of Cole's--to the lady.

England have not helped themselves, barely asking any questions with the ball and heaping the pressure on a notoriously vulnerable batting.

He will not take no for an answer, whether it involves ravishment or a restaurant table; indeed, he will barely ask the question, preferring to bully the world into an exhausted chorus of "yes".

It doesn't matter that the novel barely asks us to believe any of this (it seems likely that the elderly novelist is losing his wits, and that this is his fond fantasy of paternal ownership); Gilbert spends precious pages on this narrative silliness, and the scene dribbles away.

You're together and he never (or barely) asks you anything about you - good Lord the minutes will tick by slowly with this one - and if not you, what is he interested in, anyway?

In fact, throughout the trial, Asaro's defense team did a pretty mediocre job in cross-examination, barely asking the witnesses anything substantial and generally failing to get the attention of jurors.

IN June, three weeks after my birthday, four months after the original disaster of a discovery, when I barely cared anymore (seriously, just barely), I asked John casually if he still had the slippers.