Sentence examples for check barely from inspiring English sources
Suddenly, he was left to choose between food and shelter, as his $1,010 monthly Social Security check barely covered his $925 rent on a shared apartment in the Inwood section of Manhattan.
Her monthly Social Security check barely covers her rent, she said, and she has been unable to get any government rent subsidies or other protection and the building does not fall under the state's rent regulations.
Eventually, Natividad lost her job, and raised those three children on a welfare check that barely covered the rent.
He has helped a friend manage a coffee bar, gives tennis lessons, and draws a small Social Security check, having barely paid any tax over his years in sluggery.
Yet Wisconsin financial planner Ty Bernicke finds most of his clients want to start Social Security as soon as they can, even at age 62, when their monthly check is barely half the benefit they'd get by waiting until 70.
Each check is barely enough to survive on.
Geffen wrote us a very small check that barely covered the legal bill".
On top of this, the city teems with aliens disguised as humans and other things kept in check, if just barely, by a special force of alien keepers known as the men in black, or M.I.B.
He said the government had "hoodwinked and cajoled" homeowners in this and previous budgets by sending out measly rebate checks that barely offset rising property taxes.
First, I found a hotel nearby that looked promising — clean, affordable, well situated — so I checked in, barely noticing that every other room on my floor was set up to host mah-jongg players.
