Sentence examples for barely taking from inspiring English sources

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Freddie Gibbs presented himself as the keeper of a disappearing genre — gangsta rap — but turned traditionalism into swagger, performing bare-chested and rattling off verse after verse a cappella, barely taking a breath.

"Frozen corn is real," Max's mom said, barely taking notice.

Barely taking a breath between sentences, he added the painful truth later: "It's a team in transition – they don't realise.

Barely taking a breath, she adds (to the tune of a number from "A Chorus Line"): "Hello, 'Roots.' Hello, Holocaust.

It was the work of Horace Fletcher, who was inspired by the deplored American habit of devouring food, barely taking time to chew it.

Parkinson has worked solidly, barely taking time off after the births of her two young children (she has two daughters with her husband, the actor Harry Peacock).

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He could barely take a little soup.

Johnny can barely take care of himself.

She barely took any pictures.

It barely took forty-five minutes.

Sometimes he barely took time to eat.

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