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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By Barry Levitt January 30, 2025 2:50 PM EST
Owen Hendricks (Noah Centineo) went through hell in the Season 1 finale of Netflix’s The Recruit, barely making it out alive following an unsparingly violent mission.
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Barry Levitt, TIME, 30 Jan. 2025
It must also be recognized that even before the pandemic, barely half of students were meeting the state’s own standards in English language arts and even fewer met them in math.
—The Editorial Board, Orange County Register, 28 Jan. 2025
This community of dirt roads and subsistence cornfields was connected to the electricity grid when Mr. García was barely a teenager, around 2014.
—Whitney Eulich, The Christian Science Monitor, 27 Jan. 2025
In the backyard, tools in his uncle’s garage are barely recognizable.
—Grace Toohey, Los Angeles Times, 27 Jan. 2025
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Barry Levitt, TIME, 30 Jan. 2025
It must also be recognized that even before the pandemic, barely half of students were meeting the state’s own standards in English language arts and even fewer met them in math.
—The Editorial Board, Orange County Register, 28 Jan. 2025
This community of dirt roads and subsistence cornfields was connected to the electricity grid when Mr. García was barely a teenager, around 2014.
—Whitney Eulich, The Christian Science Monitor, 27 Jan. 2025
In the backyard, tools in his uncle’s garage are barely recognizable.
—Grace Toohey, Los Angeles Times, 27 Jan. 2025
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“Barely.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/barely. Accessed 2 Feb. 2025.
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