Sentence examples for was barely fed from inspiring English sources
Ruiz was barely fed, forced to work long hours and beaten ― even whipped with tire rubber ― as punishment.
"I was told that I wasn't below the poverty line," though she felt that she was, adding, "I mean, I was facing eviction and was barely feeding my two children".
I was barely feeding myself, so I didn't have any money to invest.
There's a telling comment from, ironically, Anton Corbijn where he mentions arriving in the late 1970s north-west as a well-fed Dutchman and being shocked at the poverty, and being around young men who were barely fed, were thinly clothed in cold weather and existed on a diet of smoking and drinking.
We're barely feeding seven billion now.
He was barely able to feed himself, selling daily commentaries to the newspaper El Heraldo for a few pesos each.
She made the equivalent of fifty dollars a week, which was barely enough to feed her own children.
She said she was paid nothing, barely fed and was beaten if her work was not satisfactory.
She was barely earning enough in her temp job to feed herself and her children, so she had to resort to desperate measures. .
Mr. Swartz, 25, was barely a teenager when he helped create RSS, the computer code that allows people to receive automatic feeds of online information.
