Sentence examples for barely pay for from inspiring English sources
Spending an average of £1.4m on each estate will barely pay for the demolition costs.
What is left of our savings will barely pay for a cup of coffee.
He did not have a wealthy patron, and at the end of his life he could barely pay for bread.
Other Americans can barely pay for their insurance or are in danger of losing it along with their jobs.
She calculated that her take-home salary, which was substantially lower than her husband's, would barely pay for child care.
At a time when most media companies can barely pay for cake at going-away parties, Bloomberg appears to be rolling in dough.
But it barely pays for the expense of traveling from tournament to tournament.
The place sleeps two couples for $2,600 a month, which barely pays for a pool shed in the Hamptons.
The money, Mr. Barth said, "goes to the cost of cleaning the fountain" – and barely pays for that.
The supply money, she said, barely pays for "a month's worth of paper that we have to send to the district for reports".
