Sentence examples for can barely be called from inspiring English sources
Despite this record, the small militia can barely be called an army.
Movie stars generally have sexual charisma, but as Gilda, Hayworth creates such a captivatingly elusive fantasy that what she does can barely be called acting.
Burhanuddin Rabbani, political leader of the opposition Northern Alliance, is internationally recognised as Afghanistan's president, but the alliance controls just a tenth of the country and consists of independent commanders who can barely be called allies.
A horse that hasn't won in a long time, and whose last few efforts can barely be called "efforts" is said to be "off form" and this horse is off form.
And rather than trying to build the DNA equivalent of a supercomputer, or even a wristwatch calculator, he made a device so simple -- from a computer science standpoint, that is -- that it can barely be called a computer.
In recent years, the romantic comedies that have distinguished themselves have attempted such different approaches that they can barely be called rom-coms at all.
Indeed, Syria and Iraq can nowadays barely be called countries at all.
Published in 1966, this isn't simply a prequel but a deeply political novel in its own right, in which names echo with a traumatic history that can barely be remembered, let alone mentioned: a town called Massacre, a boy called Disastrous, and Antoinette herself, who is cruelly stripped of her illusions by a husband who insists on calling her Bertha.
Hidden in marshes and under damp leaf litter in a remote rain forest in India, tiny frogs — some smaller than the average fingernail — can barely be heard making their distinct insectlike calls.
Their activity can barely be measured due to the difficulty in isolating enough biological material.
