Sentence examples for barely middle from inspiring English sources

She said that "being active was a way of life" back then, even though "my family certainly wasn't rich, our neighborhood was barely middle class".

This group is essentially part of India's elite, when contrasted with the rest of the population, yet barely middle class by global standards.

The houses at the bottom of each hill are barely middle class; the houses at the top might fairly be described as opulent.

My father had not yet even received tenure; we were barely middle class, and lived in a rented house whose carpets were old and thin — the mixer made a noise as I pulled it.

Must this guru of natural health, a man who gained the trust and support of millions of people worldwide, really succumb at the barely middle age of 44 from an accidental and lethal combination of alcohol and the antidepressant and sleeping aid Doxepin?

We were just barely middle class.

But Ms. Yeoh, at 38, is barely middle-aged.

Our solar system is barely middle-aged and if humans avoid self-destruction, the post-human era beckons.

Eventually, the residents of the Leben Home for Adults in Elmhurst -- some barely middle-aged, one nearly 80 -- were put under general anesthesia for an hourlong operation to shave tissue from their prostates.

But he wrote best, I think, about the gray world of blocked aspiration that his parents inhabited in the barely middle-­class town of Shillington, Pa., where his mother was an unpublished writer and his father a schoolteacher at a time when teachers were "well below machinists and full-fashioned knitters in the scale of prestige".

It's barely the middle of June, and this is shaping up to be an especially long, hot summer in China.