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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That’s modest by hedge-fund standards but remarkable for someone barely out of college.
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Sharon Goldman, Fortune, 9 Oct. 2025
In 2019, the predecessor to ChatGPT was barely able to string a coherent sentence together; just three years later, fed with more data and computing power, ChatGPT became a world sensation.
—Billy Perrigo, Time, 9 Oct. 2025
The battle for roster spots in camp wasn’t all that compelling, with young players such as Alex Bump and Emil Andrae not doing enough to make the opening-night roster, and Jett Luchanko barely doing enough.
—Kevin Kurz, New York Times, 9 Oct. 2025
Calvin Klein Men's Boxer Briefs Finally throw those briefs your husband claims are totally fine — but in reality are barely hanging on by a thread of elastic — in the trash.
—Lauren Silbert, PEOPLE, 8 Oct. 2025
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Sharon Goldman, Fortune, 9 Oct. 2025
In 2019, the predecessor to ChatGPT was barely able to string a coherent sentence together; just three years later, fed with more data and computing power, ChatGPT became a world sensation.
—Billy Perrigo, Time, 9 Oct. 2025
The battle for roster spots in camp wasn’t all that compelling, with young players such as Alex Bump and Emil Andrae not doing enough to make the opening-night roster, and Jett Luchanko barely doing enough.
—Kevin Kurz, New York Times, 9 Oct. 2025
Calvin Klein Men's Boxer Briefs Finally throw those briefs your husband claims are totally fine — but in reality are barely hanging on by a thread of elastic — in the trash.
—Lauren Silbert, PEOPLE, 8 Oct. 2025
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“Barely.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/barely. Accessed 10 Oct. 2025.
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