Sentence examples for could do barely from inspiring English sources
Indeed, as unemployment kept on climbing, the idea that "working women" were taking away jobs that male "breadwinners" could do, barely lost purchase in the most stricken and hollowed-out communities at all.
Like D. W. Griffith, Orson Welles came into the movies in order to make money so that he could continue in the theatre, and, like Griffith, he discovered that movies were the medium in which he could do what he had barely dreamed of doing in the theatre.
He could barely do his job.
She could barely do that on two good legs.
Favre denied he gave his friend the sack, but he could barely do it with a straight face.
It was a particular move that I could barely do even if my skin was good and I hadn't spent a week climbing to get there.
"You could barely do 'Rock the Baby' and your yo-yo would be dying," said Bill de Boisblanc, a national grandmaster who won the World Yo-Yo Contest in 1994, 1995 and 1997.
Further admitting that he could barely do a single pull-up, Demerly went on to praise the fitness of a CrossFit type he had met named Joe Sparks, who "gave a demonstration using a 50-pound kettlebell making it look like he was maneuvering a tennis ball".
Everybody was over-expended and I could barely do my work.
