Sentence examples for barely provide from inspiring English sources

But the two enterprises barely provide sustenance for her husband and sons.

Andy Flower was so furious he could barely provide an answer longer than two clauses.

Sloping seats at bus stops barely provide a perch, let alone a place to actually sit.

IT IS past noon, and the four canopies and rudimentary misting system at the Macehualli Work Centre in northern Phoenix barely provide relief for the 40 Latino men still waiting to be hired for a day's work.

That famous opening was the least striking aspect of this performance, though, since it demands a real organ, and the electronic substitute that the Philharmonic uses could barely provide the requisite hall-rattling bass.

Mr. Mukane, the sharecropper, and his neighbors said their problems were heightened because they received much less water this year from a nearby reservoir, which is so depleted that it can barely provide drinking water to Aurangabad, a city of 1.2 million.

New Castle just barely provides that surge of tourist adrenaline inspired by acquisitiveness and new venues for shopping.

The current scheme, which got under way last April, "barely provides for the basics of life," according to Denis Halliday, the UN's man in Iraq.

But even ignoring that, the boast that the stock market effectively allocates scarce investment resources is undercut by the fact that it barely provides any.

Hence the prodigal's return was barely providing a diversion in a game that in its own right is becoming a source of genuine fascination – especially after the series against Sri Lanka.

By the time Maryann was 18, she had two babies and was heroically seeing Ray through two years at Chico State College (where he would soon become the protégé of the novelist John Gardner) by working full time as a waitress, then a telephone operator — jobs that barely provided enough money for their survival.