Sentence examples for barely held up from inspiring English sources

The bone-thin detainee, who was wearing a grimy lime-green oxford shirt and gray slacks barely held up by a belt, was Duncan Mutungi.

Safin's mind had barely held up against Kiefer's body in a 6-3, 4-6, 4-6, 6-4, 7-6 (4) victory.

Adam Bertocci works at TheForce.net The original Star Trek series is often derided for its 1960s campy silliness and for effects that barely held up to scrutiny even then, but it was incredibly progressive in matters of race and gender.

"The mold barely held up the first batch of prototypes and ended up exploding".

While most rallies were relatively small and barely held up traffic, the Rome event drew tens of thousands of people and snaked through the city center for miles (kilometers).

The rest of it, however, is a tatty labyrinth of corridors barely held up by crumbling walls, and windowless rooms that look like they were decorated by a pub landlord sometime in the late-70s.

These lonely old men, Josie thought, with their wet lips and small eyes, their necks barely holding up their heavy heads full of their many mistakes and the funerals of friends.

I ended the day right where those kernels came from, in a field filled with cornstalks that looked as if they had been starved dry, the gray skeletons barely holding up the ears.

Juba's streets, which were deserted just three years ago, are now crammed with 12-year-olds whizzing around on shiny new motorcycles that their skinny legs can barely hold up.

"It's like something from another planet," said the Borussia keeper Roman Weidenfeller, who was nursing a painful rib-injury after coming together with Mario Gómez and could barely hold up the cup after the final whistle.

The recent reports in The New England Journal of Medicine summarize the concerns of many public health officials that mass smallpox vaccination is problematic and barely holds up to risk-benefit analysis ("Scientists Favoring Cautious Approach to Smallpox Shots," front page, Dec. 20).