Sentence examples for barely lift it from inspiring English sources

She could barely lift it.

It was very heavy: he could barely lift it.

One was so large, he could barely lift it, he said.

"The goody bag was a duffel bag so heavy my husband could barely lift it," she said.

One shopper recently bought an old picnic hamper -- so sturdily built "you could barely lift it," Mr. Bent said -- for some $14,000 and planned to use it for alfresco dining back home in South Africa.

At several points, I thought I might give way to panic — that I'd be left with a pile of stuff I couldn't bring home — but chugged thru it methodically and calmly, and was rewarded: even if the Todi suitcase weighs (curiosity, pay scale in the train station in Milan) 54.0 kg (119 pounds) and in fact I can barely lift it: I hope I don't get socked for some horrific charge at the airport.

When he arrives, the old dog barely lifts its head in greeting.

This sort of deconstructionism has been done to death, and is so familiar and enfeebled that it can barely lift the gun to its own head.

Why would natural selection favor a bird built like an "Eat Me" sign, with a tail so long that it can barely lift off?

"It was hurting me so bad I could barely lift my leg out of the bed," Van Horn said.

At beginner level, on minuscule training jumps that barely lift you off the ground and are rubbish to look at, it's a huge disappointment.