Sentence examples for one could barely from inspiring English sources

With Lyon only managing a draw against a bright Gent side that, because of a pair of red cards, will have two players suspended for their trip to Saint Petersburg, matchday one could barely have gone better for Andre Villas-Boas's team.

One could barely get a night's sleep before another White House aide, the speechwriter David Sorensen, was forced to resign after it was revealed that, during a background check, his ex-wife, Jessica Corbett, had told the F.B.I. that he had abused her by, among other acts, putting out a cigarette on her hand and running over her foot with a car.

Last weekend here in Dublin one could barely move without someone making a joke.

Indeed, one could barely describe it.

Was this my daughter, the one whom I could barely get to look at a newspaper during high school?

Rather than waste your entire morning forcing you to read two iPad 2 case reviews (I think I could barely read one at a sitting, but but these are important enough to look at more closely), I've decided to mush together two reviews into one megareview, the way Voltron is made up of multiple robots.

Sadly, whichever Manx god controls the clouds had contrived to plop one on top of Snaefell: I could barely see seven yards.

"I was so exhausted I could barely walk from one side [of the court] to the other.

He has eaten yellow chips, white chips, green chips, black chips and, on one memorable occasion, Day-Glo orange chips: "My 65p cone weighed in at 200g on my in-car scales, but the chips looked so alien I could barely stomach one, for research purposes only".

Until, one day, she knocked on my door and I could barely recognize her.

Doubt it; I could barely write this one.