Sentence examples for barely grasped from inspiring English sources

Born to proudly German secular Jews, he had barely grasped that he was Jewish before he heard that Jews were evil and not really German.

This is a novel of the unsaid, the implied, the barely grasped or understood, crammed with dark holes and blurry spaces that your imagination feels compelled to fill.

I was bound for an M.B.A. after college, but I liked to sit around the table late at night, drunk and high, smoking cigarettes and arguing points that I had barely grasped in seminar.

It was the first league title game to go into overtime (a concept players barely grasped before returning to the field; Gifford said some were upset because they wanted to go home).

Reviewing The Loney for the Guardian, Sarah Perry called it a masterpiece that could be held up "alongside those of Walpole, Du Maurier, Maturin and Jackson", while Julie Myerson, reviewing for the Observer, said it is "a novel of the unsaid, the implied, the barely grasped or understood, crammed with dark holes and blurry spaces that your imagination feels compelled to fill.

Campaigners have complained that the government barely grasps the issue.

I can just barely grasp how much the home farm has changed since Everon was born.

But by this time he was so ripped, he could barely grasp it.

One difficulty in writing about magic is that it is considered a cardinal sin to reveal methods, even when you are an outsider who barely grasps them — particularly when you are an outsider who barely grasps them.

But how do I explain such things to my children, when I can barely grasp such horrors myself?

I can barely grasp the horror faith has wrought throughout history, and I see evidence of its continuing impact.