Examples of barely in a Sentence
We barely spoke the entire time we were in the car.
There are barely any new features in this software.
There is barely a difference between the two.
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According to investigators, during the months she was held captive, the teen was barely given food and was forced to use a water jug as a toilet.
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Cbs New York Team, CBS News, 25 Mar. 2026
At the end of February, another Hercules C-130 belonging to the Bolivian Air Force crashed in the populous city of El Alto, barely missing a residential block.
—Luis Jaime Acosta, USA Today, 24 Mar. 2026
Ships with barely 100 cabins that can access coves and fishing villages no megaship can touch.
—Elycia Rubin, HollywoodReporter, 24 Mar. 2026
Bernhard’s barely contained incestuous desires (The Loser is only one of a suite of works about brother-sister love and hate, alongside Correction, The Lime Works, and Concrete) are the product of individual psychologies run amok and turned back on themselves, the offshoots of artistic monomania.
—Christine Smallwood, Harpers Magazine, 24 Mar. 2026
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Cbs New York Team, CBS News, 25 Mar. 2026
At the end of February, another Hercules C-130 belonging to the Bolivian Air Force crashed in the populous city of El Alto, barely missing a residential block.
—Luis Jaime Acosta, USA Today, 24 Mar. 2026
Ships with barely 100 cabins that can access coves and fishing villages no megaship can touch.
—Elycia Rubin, HollywoodReporter, 24 Mar. 2026
Bernhard’s barely contained incestuous desires (The Loser is only one of a suite of works about brother-sister love and hate, alongside Correction, The Lime Works, and Concrete) are the product of individual psychologies run amok and turned back on themselves, the offshoots of artistic monomania.
—Christine Smallwood, Harpers Magazine, 24 Mar. 2026
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“Barely.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/barely. Accessed 26 Mar. 2026.
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