Sentence examples for barely describes from inspiring English sources

Does not describe me at all. 2. Barely describes me.

Her official title is children's librarian, but that barely describes the range of her duties.

I'd noticed before that Tolstoy, whose characters spend so much time in Moscow and St Petersburg, barely describes these cities.

Mark has a background in jet-engine design and a connoisseur's eye for aquatic technique, but he assures me that the language of fluid dynamics barely describes the specific magic of a swimmer like Phelps.

In this way one follows Bryant's meandering story through countless Brobdingnagian bottles of Mountain Dew and wads of chewing tobacco, into an impromptu early marriage and finally out to the Wyoming oil fields, where the young man meets his death in an accident that Fuller, oddly, barely describes.

(Pretzel logic barely describes Lord's attempted spin).

Euphoria can barely describe it.

Indeed, one could barely describe it.

If asked, he could barely describe his bedroom at home.

Other children could barely describe what their parents looked like.

He lives in a barely described, vaguely contemporary east London.