Sentence examples for can only barely be from inspiring English sources
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.
"We have more than 100,000 troops in Afghanistan risking life and limb, at a cost of $10 billion a month, to pursue ill-defined goals whose achievement" can only barely be imagined.
The fact of the matter is that severe, chemically based depression can only barely be managed with techniques like these (if at all).
From where we're driving, you can only barely make out the green haze of a laser show in the distance.
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.
Indeed, Syria and Iraq can nowadays barely be called countries at all.
Those insights can, however, barely be inferred from experiments using highly artificial substrates.
So hostile to nature are the residential and commercial buildings in the second part of this exhibition that trees can barely be found, existing luxuriantly only in a tacky framed print in a shopping center.
Their activity can barely be measured due to the difficulty in isolating enough biological material.
In the third patient, the cortex and white matter can barely be distinguished.
