Sentence examples for barely ready from inspiring English sources

Montgomery was barely ready.

But in several cases "barely ready" would have been more apt.

She has only recently extracted herself from the trafficking system and is barely ready to start recounting her experiences.

The available females are quickly spoken for, so the males tend to zero in on females that are just barely ready to mate, or not even — the tweens.

The UN will soon start to withdraw and the jobs done by its staff will be taken over by Timorese, who all sides admit are barely ready to cope.

The iPhone seems obvious and its success assured now – but as recounted in Fred Vogelstein's forthcoming book Dogfight, it was actually a tightrope walk involving barely ready prototypes, buggy software and last-minute deals.

"With the best engineers in the world, and the crew varying between the intensely respectable and the barely sane, ready to scorn any disaster, unless of Titanic scale".

She's never had sex before, but initiates it to save his life after finding him barely conscious and ready to die.

Narrow the bead down slightly by rubbing it against sandpaper or a file until it is ready to just barely fit very tightly far enough down into the bowl that the top (outermost part) of the bead will be flush with or just slightly protruding beyond the top of the pipe bowl.

His arm throbbing so badly that he advised Biron to get ready, Lundqvist, barely able to grip his stick, made 13 more saves in the third period.

It was barely minutes after the Ready Player One premiere, and texts from my friends and colleagues in the VR community began pouring in….