Sentence examples for barely preparing from inspiring English sources

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

As Jonathan Chait noted this week at New York magazine, Trump's advisers have been going to heroic lengths to give the impression that Trump himself is barely preparing for Monday's debate.

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

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

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.

If leaders continue to rush from meeting to meeting, are out on lunch appointments, barely prepared for annual employee reviews, and lock themselves in their beautiful corner office for most of the day, they will never get a true feeling for what's going on with their people.

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.

a. Tell them everything is fine and you had barely started preparing.

She could barely make herself prepare dinner.