Sentence examples for barely familiar from inspiring English sources

It can happen whether you're shy or outgoing, whether the topic of conversation is one you're into or one you're barely familiar with.

Because Tim Tebow has transcended football, he has steadily gained casual fans and many who are barely familiar with the game.

We pulled over to shut off the offending technology, stemming the tide of barely familiar colleagues who would send us their misbegotten congratulations.

The competition required of Rep. Mathias skills in several events with which he was barely familiar, including the pole vault, long jump and javelin throw.

Under his tenure, it evolved into one of the two best economic institutions in Russia, with an international reputation — an independent organization that built its own endowment at a time when endowments, in post-Soviet Russia, were barely familiar.

He was the wand expert, Mr. Ollivander, in several Harry Potter films, and the führer-like dictator of a barely familiar England in the futuristic "V for Vendetta" (2005).

For this reason, the White House has been filmed and written about to the extent that it's barely less familiar than our own front rooms.

In fact, Mr. Landau had been on the screen most of the preceding hour, barely recognizable, his familiar persona camouflaged by makeup, a mustache and a performance that dominates much of the movie.

Barely seared tuna is familiar, but the circle of black tahini it rests on is not.

The examples are mostly familiar, and barely scratch the surface of the design sphere they represent.

He said all of this matter-of-factly, the familiar chin barely hidden behind the thin growth of his beard.