How to Use barely in a Sentence

barely

adverb

• We barely spoke the entire time we were in the car.
• There is barely a difference between the two.
• There are barely any new features in this software.
• But his oga could barely speak.
  — Literary Hub, 4 Nov. 2025
• Some teams barely break a sweat.
  — Mitch Light, New York Times, 3 June 2026
• But that barely stemmed the tide.
  — Orlando Sentinel Editorial Board, The Orlando Sentinel, 16 Apr. 2026
• Clothes could barely touch my skin.
  — Chloe Laws, Condé Nast Traveler, 16 Apr. 2026
• The boy has died; the girl is barely alive.
  — Oline H. Cogdill, Sun Sentinel, 8 Jan. 2026
• Twice as good may be a stretch, but just barely.
  — The Athletic Staff, New York Times, 30 Sep. 2025
• It is barely joined to the land by a sandy stretch.
  — A.k. Whitney, Oc Register, 9 Sep. 2025
• Clothes moths barely fly and don’t like the light.
  — Literary Hub, 21 Jan. 2026
• The took barely more than the clothes on their backs.
  — Garrett Behanna, CBS News, 30 Mar. 2026
• His eight-iron barely stayed on the back of the green.
  — Doug Ferguson, Los Angeles Times, 21 June 2026
• This whole idea that teenagers barely work now is crazy to me.
  — Jamie Ludwig, Spin, 29 Sep. 2023
• Kelf can now barely walk and has been forced to quit his job.
  — Khloe Quill, FOXNews.com, 7 Apr. 2026
• His name barely came up, if at all, for the first six hours.
  — Antonia Hitchens, New Yorker, 22 Sep. 2025
• His 8-iron barely stayed on the back of the green.
  — CBS News, 21 June 2026
• My car was tiny and there was barely enough room for all four of us.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Apr. 2022
• There are no bad parts, and yet even the best ones are barely there.
  — oregonlive, 27 May 2022
• My son and his wife have barely spoken to me since.
  — Abigail Van Buren, Boston Herald, 8 Mar. 2026
• Trout was one of two players who barely missed a home run.
  — Jeff Fletcher, Oc Register, 4 June 2026
• Rinse the items with barely warm water, not hot.
  — Michele Laufik, Martha Stewart, 7 Jan. 2026
• Farrell barely made a move for the ball.
  — Jerry McDonald, Mercury News, 18 Jan. 2026
• Trust, with barely a glance at the working.
  — Dara-Abasi Ita, Forbes.com, 13 June 2026
• There would barely be room for work, let alone a social life.
  — Sean Williams, Outside, 27 Oct. 2025
• But, for years, it was barely used for public events.
  — Jim Harrington, Mercury News, 29 May 2026
• My voice was barely above a whisper.
  — Brianne Tracy, PEOPLE, 18 Sep. 2025
• None of the first, and barely the second!
  — Han Ong, New Yorker, 15 Mar. 2026
• The session barely got off the ground.
  — Adam Ciralsky, Vanity Fair, 19 Mar. 2026
• The man barely got past the perimeter.
  — Oren Oppenheim, ABC News, 26 Apr. 2026