Sentence examples for town of barely from inspiring English sources

Then came the toys, motorized and pedal powered, and, before long, Moab was mobbed, a town of barely 6,000 people with almost 2,000 hotel rooms.

For the past three years, this town of barely a million inhabitants has been aiming to establish itself as a key stop on Russia's cultural map, opening gallery and performance spaces the way it once produced nuclear ballistic missiles.

In Glasgow, Missouri, a town of barely 1,000 people, it didn't take long for the rumor mill to start churning: There were whispers that Suttner had been bullied at school and at work.

In the little town of Gonesse, barely four miles southwest of the airport, there were reactions of shock and distress.

TRADITIONALLY, the Gold Coast towns of Fairfield County barely flinch when the rest of the state may be in serious economic pain.

A sister from out-of-town barely recalls the last time she saw him.

The town of Greenwich would barely miss those criteria, with a black population of 1.8percentt and a Hispanic population of 7.2percentt.

At a gathering of potential voters in the small town of Northfield, Santorum barely mentioned his devout Catholic faith or the usual hot-button social conservative issues of gay marriage and abortion.

These animals are so much a part of the landscape that hundreds huddle silently on a hillside several miles out of town, barely spottable, the pewter color of their skins camouflaging them against the grey sky, white birch and snowy fields.

"Look, he says we're better off than we were four years ago and I know I am better off, but I don't know if that applies to all," he said, gesturing with his head towards a part of town barely three blocks away where unemployed black men loiter on street corners.

Robiskie, who turned 46 last month, grew up in Lucy, La., a town of 1,800 people that barely covers six miles.