Sentence examples for singing barely from inspiring English sources

Costumed as macho archetypes -- construction worker, soldier, Indian brave -- and singing barely veiled gay paeans like "Y.M.C.A".

In his Consumer Guide, Robert Christgau gave the album a three-star honorable mention and stated, "Beats of course, songs usually, singing barely--especially sincere-type singing"; he also picked out two songs from the album: "Anti-Matter" and "Everyone Nose (All the Girls Standing in the Line for the Bathroom)".

She moved around the stage casually and lightly, and sang barely moving her lips.

"What can a poor boy do, except play in a rock 'n' roll band?" Jagger once sang, barely concealing his cynicism.

"Who'll gather us in like the lost tribe we are?" sang Paul Sachs, barely able to contain his emotion.

Mr. Plant sings with barely a hint of arena bluster; his voice is aching and androgynous.

"Sometimes you think everything/ is wrapped inside a diamond ring," Pink sings, with barely any backing.

The era of the lip-synching, barely singing pop star may be ending.

Miss Lynne is barely singing.

Much of the rest of the solo singing was barely serviceable at best, though the lackluster audio system may have been a contributing factor Near the end of the evening, there seemed to be a creaking sound, and looks of concern passed along the front row of the children's chorus, but it was evidently nothing.

The problem is, Ferreira does more apologising than singing, and her band barely gets to finish a song.