Sentence examples for can only barely from inspiring English sources

"You can only barely make a living doing TV repair now," he said.

Most Jordanians, he said, can only barely stomach the idea of a military strike against Afghanistan.

Lucas's script has a buzzy, intelligent humor, but it's weighed down by too many contrivances, which the director, Mark Wing-Davey, can only barely contain.

We can only barely manage the repayments with two salaries coming in, and I don't know how we would cope if I lost my job.

Mr. Cameron said he read Popular Mechanics as a youngster and it inspired him to believe that "there's going to be this amazing future we can only barely imagine".

Having hamstrung Signy - literally, in a scene that compares with the putting out of Gloucester's eye in King Lear and can only barely be borne - he delivers her three brothers to be eaten by genetically modified, half-pig monsters.

Looking for an event horizon is like looking for a needle in a haystack, except the needle isn't visible at all — you can only just barely discern its subtracted outline in the surrounding hay.

They'll "create all kinds of services and products that we can only even barely imagine".

They can, as they did with weather data, as they did with GPS data, create all kinds of services and products that we can only even barely imagine.

I wasn't worried about playing with my son when he was a week or a year old; I was, in some way I can still only barely perceive, thinking about whether I could play with him when he was twelve and fourteen and sixteen.

Hiked prices would spark a renewed effort into researching and developing new ways of producing energy, ways "we can now only barely envision," he said.