Sentence examples for he barely does from inspiring English sources

He barely does anything — yet it's the kind of screen acting that made generations of filmgoers revere Brando in "On the Waterfront": it's the willingness to go emotionally naked and the control to do it in character... "Blow Out" is the first movie in which De Palma has stripped away the cackle and the glee; this time he's not inviting you to laugh along with him.

He barely did anything.

After completing a work, in a kind of ecstatic state, it was as if the painting existed and he barely did anymore: "I usually have to go to bed for a couple of days".

Then he threw the lazy kick, which required him to spin, though he barely did that allowing the challenger to grab him and rack up enough damage that the referee would not have been justified if he had stopped the contest there and then.

Len told him not to leave my side, which he barely did.

His gift for oral performance had allowed him to get through high school with no effort, and he barely did a dozen written homework assignments.

Favre denied he gave his friend the sack, but he could barely do it with a straight face.

He barely drinks, doesn't do drugs, says "gosh" with a straight face and attends church on Sundays.

He could barely do his job.

He's barely done any interviews in the last 20 years, after decades as the Who's de facto spokesman.

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".