Sentence examples for barely picked from inspiring English sources

"We had barely picked ourselves up after the earthquake when the cholera fell on us".

During a news conference Friday, Uihlein, ranked 121st in the world, spoke so softly the microphone barely picked up some of his answers.

This time demand has barely picked up, even though the price has fallen by half.One short-term reason is yet another unseasonably warm winter in the northern hemisphere.

Speaking of shifting perceptions, I'm newly in love with a brow pencil I bought years ago and have barely picked up since.

"I couldn't be more sorry about what happened," he said, his voice scratchy and so low that it was barely picked up by the microphone.

RISHON LeZION, Israel — Roxana González, 25, and her brother Rafael, 24, had barely picked up a bow and arrow since their days as champion high school archers in Cuba.

I could barely pick it up.

His radar can barely pick up Theresa's vivid, urban, self-deprecating sense of humor.

Kinnear explains all this with a quiet intensity and voice so hushed my tape recorder barely picks him up.

The council barely picks up the rubbish and doesn't maintain the street lamps, but [the tram] is a way of asserting sovereignty over East Jerusalem".

Ms. Gilmore's performance is quite a show of strength and fortitude — huffing and puffing, she can just barely pick up the final block — but to what end?