Sentence examples for only just able from inspiring English sources

They were only just able to scramble on board.

Its foreign-currency reserves are only just able to cover this.

Fortunately, we were only just able to meet our budget, thanks to the large amount of scrap we managed to acquire at the Emerson Lab.

Buchan described the novel as a "shocker" – an adventure so unlikely that the reader is only just able to believe that it could really have happened.

Simon almost fell over as he wriggled out of his tight jeans — he was only just able to catch himself on Lara, who was impatiently tugging at the hooks on her bra.

Perhaps it was the slightly too on-the-nose reference to W. H. Auden's "Musée des Beaux Arts" that I was only just able to prevent myself from making ("how everything turns away / Quite leisurely from the disaster").

The visitors dominated large swathes of the game, but were only able to convert that into just the one goal.

The current crop of ultra-large container vessels can navigate the Suez - just - but they are only able to dock at a handful of the world's ports.

While Planck has given us a map of the Big Bang's leftover glow down to angular scales of just 0.07°, COBE was only able to get down to about 7° and WMAP, although much better, only got us down to about 0.5°.

Observers are able to reliably distinguish their own eye movements from randomly generated scan paths, but they are only able to discriminate from the eye movements of others at a level just above chance (Foulsham & Kingstone, 2013).

"I always just say, 'I am only able to pay this much this month and, p.s., I think you need a class in money management," she said.