Sentence examples for barely to keep from inspiring English sources
But I had managed, barely, to keep up with Daniel's scorching pace, so he let me keep tagging along.
Up close the illusion remained so utterly intact that when I returned to my seat, I was grateful that I had managed, just barely, to keep myself from shedding tears in a spotlight.
The title character, concealed within a hollowed-out space in the wall of a barn, manages (just barely) to keep up his spirits by feeding on life-giving memories of his earlier, cosmopolitan self.
They just barely managed to keep the embers from burning up the place.
At the current rate, job growth is just barely enough to keep up with population growth and keep unemployment from rising.
Job growth has averaged 153,000 per month for the past two years, just barely enough to keep up with regular growth in the labor force.
Average hourly wages fell 0.1percentt in July and are up just 1.9percentt in the past year, barely enough to keep up with inflation.
And in an era where newspapers can barely afford to keep the talent they have, that's just another nail in the coffin.
It was barely tolerable to keep opening to it, and it seemed I just kept spiraling, around and around, inside a seemingly endless circle of pain.
His parents earned barely enough to keep everyone fed.
