Sentence examples for were barely adequate from inspiring English sources

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

This week, in her annual address on the state's judiciary, the state's chief judge, Judith S. Kaye, again spoke of her "abiding frustration" with the state's failure to raise rates that she said "were barely adequate 15 years ago".

Voices came from behind me, inquiring if I was well, if I had come far, if I was hungry, and I replied as best I could, though I was aware that my answers were barely adequate.

The depressing superlatives that were laced through the coverage and commentary of Sandy (which acquired a hyphenated name when it came ashore as a post-tropical cyclone) were barely adequate in describing the storm's impact.

Service was barely adequate.

But that in itself is barely adequate.

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.

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

Administrative and rehearsal facilities at the orchestra's Avery Fisher home are barely adequate.