He also spotted birds, bats and other creatures that we could barely discern in the vines and branches.
In the blackness, I could barely discern the stars from 30 other hikers' twinkling headlamps, seemingly miles above us.
Politics are at work all the time, sometimes in ways we can spot and at other times in ways we can barely discern.
Even with the help of both hands, we can barely discern whether the pupils are towards the top or the bottom of the eye".
He was quiet, so quiet she could barely discern the sound of his breathing, and she knew that he was awake, for throughout their marriage he had always been a noisy sleeper.
Looking for an event horizon is like looking for a needle in a haystack, except the needle isn't visible at all — you can only just barely discern its subtracted outline in the surrounding hay.
You can just barely discern the pair of disheveled drinkers making out at the bar, elbows flailing like two enraptured trolls.
Participants remained standing, while stimulation intensities were gradually decreased by the researchers until the participant could barely discern the stimulus (identified as PT).
He is in his studio, hard at work, intently studying his reflection, before turning to the canvas whose edge we can just barely discern at the right side of the painting, as if trying to grasp some elusive quality of his homely mien and state of mind.
