"barely weighs" is a correct and usable part of a sentence in written English.
It is used to describe something that weighs very little or has very little weight. Example: The newborn kitten barely weighs a pound, but it was able to climb up onto the chair with ease.
Sticky barely weighs eight pounds.
It barely weighs anything at 90g and is waterproof up to 3m.
A True Pro Prospect The Ivy's most enticing N.F.L. prospect barely weighs 180 pounds with a backpack of books and he played for a 3-6 team.
He still runs, he barely weighs any more than he did when he was 30, and some of what he says about athletics – "we're not a failing sport" – might give the impression, wrongly, that he is stuck in the past.
In the Chiricahua Mountains of southeastern Arizona, Mexican jays, Aphelocoma wollweberi, are midlevel predators -- mesopredators -- that particularly enjoy feasting on hummingbird eggs and nestlings, as you can see in this video: The black-chinned hummingbird, Archilochus alexandri, the species whose nest was ransacked in the above video, barely weighs as much as an American penny.
About a thousand folks showed up June 19 and saw Sonya Thomas, a stalwart of the tour who barely weighs more than 100 pounds, consume 6 pounds of salty balls (a typical serving weighs about four ounces) in 8 minutes 40 seconds, winning $2,500 for her efforts.
He assumed that the deaths were caused by starvation — even the wealthy-looking women he saw barely weighed ninety pounds.
These tiny entities barely weigh anything at all, don't have electric charge and can travel through solid matter as though it weren't there because they hardly ever interact with anything.
Instead I was introduced to a small, shy boy who barely weighed 100 pounds.
On April 28, Guanghe managed to pull a 1.6-ton Mercedes Benz with his eye sockets -- despite barely weighing 100 pounds himself.
Yet Congress barely weighed in, passing no new or updated resolution to authorize this particular war or, for that matter, Iraq War 3.0.
