Sentence examples for barely serving as from inspiring English sources

The real issue is that he's barely serving as it is.

The Church barely serves as a moral authority or source of spiritual solace.

But as Joel Kotkin mentioned, we would be continuing to fund "A transit system that barely serves as many people as it did before we started building trains".

A transit system that barely serves as many people as it did before we started building trains, housing prices among the highest in the nation, super-high poverty rates and a population that continues to seek to go somewhere else, including some 1.6 million net domestic migrants who have left the L.A. and Orange County area since 2000.

However, the expense barely served as a standalone barrier to the participants, as being "expensive" is a relative concept that needs to be weighed against function and worth.

Not bad for a player who can barely serve at half speed these days as her elbow has never fully healed.

Bergdahl barely served two months in Afghanistan as an active private, contributing to a great cause from which he would later be repelled.

The texture, however, wasn't as troubling as the price: $32 for an appetizer that barely served two.

It was barely served there.

Prakash Rathod's family is living in a makeshift shed of sticks barely 4 feet high, with torn clothes serving as a canopy.

These causal conditions flare up in the brain moment by moment, serving as triggers for moments of consciousness, but happening so quickly that the mind is barely aware of them.