Sentence examples for can barely stir from inspiring English sources
Then, when a deal is threatened by issues raised by the inspection (every inspection seems to find mold, termites, and dry rot), she can barely stir herself to smooth things over.
They're sweet and funny for the most part, but many are so pneumatically overweight that, comatose from hours in front of the television, they can barely stir to fetch another bag of mini-muffins.
This 19th-century novel has a protagonist who would be familiar to many men in their 20s and 30s today: a young fellow who has enormous privilege but can barely stir himself to move from his bed to his chair, a proto-slacker imbued with Russian gravity.
The crowd barely stirred.
Ceiling fans barely stirred the stifling air.
They barely stirred when the aftershock hit as they slept.
Yet the conflict has barely been reported, and the international community has barely stirred.
Hill waited, but the man in the car barely stirred.
The White House and the Pentagon would have barely stirred.
His home crowd, used to it all, barely stirred.
