Sentence examples for barely avoided from inspiring English sources

Last fall the country barely avoided bankruptcy.

IT was an accident that was barely avoided.

Miami barely avoided a winless season in 2007.

This year, Poland barely avoided its first recession in two decades.

At the beginning of the year, Britain barely avoided a triple-dip recession.

Paris is better protected now, though serious flooding has been barely avoided several times since 1910.

Eurozone manufacturing activity dropped for the fifth month and barely avoided contraction.

GIANTS 7, BRAVES 5 The Giants barely avoided another loss to host Atlanta in the final at-bat.

(AP) RED SOX 7, TWINS 6 The Boston bullpen barely avoided a collapse in a victory in Minnesota.

That included when he barely avoided disaster, which he managed to do for most of his adult life.

Armed with every tangible and intangible reason to demolish Chicago (2-14), the Knicks instead barely avoided a disastrous defeat.