Sentence examples for is barely suitable from inspiring English sources

Baku has beaches — it's on a peninsula on the western shore of the Caspian Sea — but the sand is barely suitable for sunbathing, much less for volleyball.

As a former caddie, I knew how to dress the part and how to act, but my game was barely suitable for a dusty municipal course, let alone one of the more challenging layouts in the Northeast.

The parameters were simple: a 200-mile run along the mountainous spine of Wales, from the top of the principality to the bottom, broken into five-day-long sections, with 45,000ft of ascent and descent – on terrain so rough that much of it was barely suitable for scrambling, let alone running – with no defined route apart from a few dozen map references indicating checkpoints.

He is barely communicative.

It is barely enough money.

The share is barely shrinking.

The university is barely religious.

Twelve minutes is barely long enough to heat up a frozen pizza, yet apparently it is time enough to gauge whether the person in front of you is a suitable mate.

That is barely the start.

The centromere is barely visible.

However, it is barely studied at present.