Sentence examples for had barely worked from inspiring English sources

Leo Hurwitz, a once-acclaimed filmmaker, had been blacklisted under McCarthy and had barely worked for a decade: he was the best, but it was a brave decision.

She had "barely worked" since leaving "SC6," the paper stated, adding that she would receive a buyout. .

"We had barely working email and no voicemail so people talked to each other.

Braingate has barely worked on just a handful of people, and it is years away from actually being useful.

But he walked out on the third series of the show mid-production and has barely worked in TV since.

"I've barely worked the gel into a suitable consistency and suddenly all these car horns start honking in the streets.

"And this was a good job to have as a new mom, because I would work for three days, have a week off, work for another day, have another week off, so I was able to manage for myself, in my heart, the time away from her... I've barely worked since my daughter was born.

The father, who was vice-president of the local bank, had barely enough work to occupy a full day.

His firms soared to huge stockmarket valuations when they had barely begun to work on their grand projects.

They had barely begun to work out how to handle things when the swarm broke up, and the air was filled with bees, who, after a few moments of indecision, took off in a south-easterly direction – towards Worthing.

Hearing that, a station worker who was struggling to revise the information on the boards said he had barely made it to work himself.