Sentence examples for barely serviceable from inspiring English sources
She had no lawyer, and her Italian was barely serviceable.
During the rush hour the only alternative would be to take a car, travelling at under 8km/ph on barely serviceable roads, particularly during the monsoon.
In The Cleveland Plain Dealer, Karen R. Long wrote that Gruen batters readers "with barely serviceable, primary-color prose, full of sobbing, shrieking, fighting, boozing and whoring that comes off at the clip of an exaggerated Saturday-morning cartoon".
Much of the rest of the solo singing was barely serviceable at best, though the lackluster audio system may have been a contributing factor Near the end of the evening, there seemed to be a creaking sound, and looks of concern passed along the front row of the children's chorus, but it was evidently nothing.
Dan Stapleton for IGN described it as "a barely serviceable, paint-by-numbers third-person shooter".
At strong safety, second-year pro Morgan Burnett is back from a season-ending knee injury, while backup Charlie Peprah has proven serviceable (though just barely – Peprah's not the soundest open-field tackler).
The screenplay is a joke and the voice acting is barely a rung above serviceable, if that.
Service was serviceable, if inconsistent.
He leans on both far too heavily for far too long in a movie so stuffed to the rafters with colorful characters, there's barely any room for a serviceable plot".
Both were serviceable but hardly anything to write home about.
