Sentence examples for if just barely from inspiring English sources

The faces hold their own, if just barely, to affirm in staunchly contemporary terms the human presence behind all art.

Experts said the North Koreans had crossed a threshold — if just barely — with a missile that could potentially strike Alaska.

If it's any consolation, South Koreans have been there, done that and come out alive — if just barely.

Occasionally, a play that should die from its self-inflicted wounds avoids flat-lining — if just barely — because of a cast and crew applying furious life support.

Beyond judgment, high potentials possess what we call "dynamic sensors," which enable them to skirt these risks, even if just barely.

They have gone 7-6 since the 1-9 start, meaning they have been a winning team — if just barely — over the last 24 days.

It manages, if often just barely, to skirt racism laws.

After all, this is China's first truly modern city, its first world city, and it remains China's largest city, even if nowadays just barely so.

(If only just barely: one of the men The Paris Review editors discussed meeting with about editorial matters in the early 1960s, he notes, was the sociologist Daniel Bell, who "essentially invented the neoconservative political movement that would inspire George W. Bush in his disastrous invasion of Iraq").

With pre-orders opening up today in the US, the company is unveiling the price of the phone, which comes in, as promised, at under $300 – if only just barely.

Regret, sorrow and incomprehension can be detected, along with sweetness and stubbornness and an unwillingness to give into cynicism and despair — if only just barely.