Sentence examples for was barely adequate from inspiring English sources

Service was barely adequate.

The meal was barely adequate, according to five diners one night.

Even with its supercharger, the four-cylinder engine was barely adequate for such a solid, heavy car.

1.54pm @sanguinman Having fought, while in my previous job in DCMS, for the NI11 measure, I would be the first to say that it wasn't sophisticated and was barely adequate in capturing anything about what the arts do.

AV Club: The original Tron was by no means perfect it was barely adequate, for that matter but it nonetheless had a sense of fun and adventure, turning on the adolescent fantasy of arcade junkies being inside the games they play.

This was barely adequate to guard important locations, and was insufficient for offensive action.

But that in itself is barely adequate.

Blunt knives, of course, were barely adequate for most meats.

By local standards, my porch is barely adequate.

"My parents were humble working folk," he writes, but the stock phrase is barely adequate.

The production's unsteadiness is compounded by a musical performance that is barely adequate.