Sentence examples for barely prepared from inspiring English sources

But what we've barely prepared for is what happens if there's a different kind of event.

As a mainly commuting cyclist, I was barely prepared, but my fitness and speed improved rapidly.

One of the story's most understated relationships — the subterranean yearning felt by one of the Makioka husbands (Koji Ishizaka) for his young sister-in-law, the shy, melancholy (and unmarried) Yukiko (Sayuri Yoshinaga, above right, with Yuko Kotegawa) — is traced so delicately that you're barely prepared for the picture's tender, wrenching ending.

Most companies are barely prepared to deal with unhappy customers who use social media to air their gripes.

But even with his warning, I was barely prepared for the cognitive assault that comes with interviewing Shane Hope.

That class I passed with a B+ average, then I jumped to AP English this year earning a high C+, which is fantastic, seeing I was barely prepared for this.

We are not preparing young people for the jobs of the future--we are barely preparing them for college.

She could barely make herself prepare dinner.

Largely ignored is the public value in the type of regulations, for example, that ensured the Lake Anna reactors were prepared (albeit barely) to withstand the jolt from below, or the building codes that gave people comfort in going back into their offices and homes.

She could not grind millet, she could not prepare a staple sauce made from baobab leaves, and she could barely cook rice.

In 1970, Reid was barely thirty, and preparing for another state run, when it was suggested that he enter the lieutenant governor's race.