Sentence examples for being barely from inspiring English sources

Every day, President Trump gets slated for being barely able to string a sentence together.

Sometimes the difference between winning and losing ends up being barely a second.

Footpaths, on the other hand, face a design problem, being barely a metre wide, and heavily obstructed.

They assert their existence in the palest terms, making a virtue out of being barely visible at all.

The answer is that Chávez turned the state-owned oil company from being professionally run to being barely run.

A grilling started and even questions answered correctly were met with a look of them being barely acceptable.

Mr. Nikou said that in two years, the acquisition went from being barely profitable to $14 million in profits.

As a post-graduate student Raine briefly taught both Martin Amis and Christopher Reid, despite being barely older than either.

Despite New Year's being barely two days away, the streets were free of snow and black ice.

What's lost — while being barely preserved, with monkish zeal, by the likes of Ryman — is a sense of risk at the frontiers of convention.

I had previously seen her stealing the show in several Pina Bausch works; there she seemed a slippery being barely contained by that choreographer's loose phrases.