Sentence examples for barely to from inspiring English sources

She seemed barely to sleep.

But broader issues seem barely to move.

Icicles clung, barely, to ledges and pipes.

Jo seems barely to react.

It manages, if often just barely, to skirt racism laws.

But Jones slid it barely to the right.

Jefferson then lost the presidency, barely, to Adams in the Electoral College.

In these operas a fragile world manages just barely to dodge the snares of love.

"When we're in a group, we get respect!" An Audi failed (barely) to nick him.

One young animal, shown navigating precipitous cliffs, seems barely to know what its limbs are for.

Its hose stretches — barely — to the farthest reaches of the interior.