Sentence examples for barely cut from inspiring English sources

The rice comes in these oyster-size dehydrated clumps, which are so hard you can barely cut them.

For those first 24 minutes, the Nets barely cut to the basket, pushed the ball in transition or did much on defense to stop Allen or Robinson.

"In our demographic" — the neighborhood is packed with people in their 20s and early 30s — "we get people in who love food and going to restaurants but can barely cut an onion, much less sharpen a knife".

County cricket's best young players – Hales, a destructive front-foot batsman from Nottinghamshire; Buttler, who has overflowed with innovation and confidence at Somerset, even though he can barely cut it in the championship; and Stokes, whom lazy judges dub the new Andrew Flintoff – are all hoping for a debut.

But the worst thing was the silence, barely cut by some nocturnal bird, by the sounds of creatures sliding through the plants — it was jungle there, thick vegetation — or by the occasional truck that sounded very far away and wasn't going to come and save us.

But the new Justice Department budget released this week projects the changes will barely cut into federal seizures.

The No 6s' collective average in that time is 31.09, which might be acceptable if an all-rounder were filling the berth, but in these days of six specialist batsmen, four bowlers and a wicketkeeper it barely cuts it.

But a greener-than-thou Prius still barely cuts it on the Audi-studded streets of Beijing.What's more, Japan's shrivelling home market has made it more difficult for firms to rely on the fastidious local consumer as an arbiter of taste.

Real-life awe barely cuts it any more.

Seems like the Internet's twisted obsession with Nic Cage just barely cuts enough muster to trump human decency.

Though the festival famously barely cuts a profit, Michael Eavis admitted in 2008 that it costs about £22 million [$34 million] a year to put on.