Sentence examples for speaking barely from inspiring English sources

She was clawing at her cheeks, speaking barely above a whisper.

"I was a prostitute," said Ms. Smith, 27, speaking barely above a whisper.

He arrived in Britain in 1995 from Pakistan to marry a local woman, speaking barely a word of English.

"I think when you stop, you stop," Mr. Crosby said, speaking barely above a whisper throughout an interview in his office on the company's grounds here.

"Quite honestly, I'm really ashamed to see that Congress doesn't have the guts to stand up and make a change and put a ban on these types of weapons," he said, speaking barely above a mumble.

After spending an afternoon in Hunts Point with Sanchez, I realized that he and his colleagues, just like the cooperative, are, economically speaking, barely in the Bronx at all.

"Punished how?" Romy spoke barely above a whisper.

Izhar had moved to Florida when he was eight years old, and he spoke barely accented English.

He speaks barely a word of English, and neither of us can find the building he wants.

In the last month he'd spoken barely a dozen words.

To put it into context, the player making the allegation speaks barely a word of English.