Sentence for barely | Use barely in a sentence

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• It seems barely just. (10)
• Her voice is barely heard. (10)
• I have been barely educated. (10)
• He had barely reproached her. (10)
• Barely are they able to read of it. (10)
• In her heart she barely blamed him. (10)
• I barely heard one compliment to you. (10)
• No sky, no distance, barely the earth. (8)
• The northern spring had barely begun. (13)
• She was quite young, barely seventeen. (12)
• He was, however, giddy, and barely knew. (10)
• He has barely a hundred a year of his own. (10)
• The General barely acknowledged his salute. (10)
• He could barely hold himself down and listen. (10)
• She begged for time; Willoughby could barely wait. (10)
• But the foil barely concealed his livid perturbation. (10)
• The politicians uttered barely a syllable of politics. (10)
• Her sedate energies could barely control her agitation. (10)
• She seemed eager to be rid of us; was barely hospitable. (10)
• But Irma and Lebruno came forward barely under tolerance. (10)
• Brought up in the Court of Portugal, he is barely English. (10)
• The letter was a plea for my own interests, barely veiled. (10)
• There was barely an hour for the ladies to dress for dinner. (10)
• Until she reached Mount Laurels she barely examined her own. (10)
• Dawn was barely visible when the Andrews household was astir. (18)
• I should be a burden, barely a living one, irresponsive and cold. (10)
• He went away in a daze, barely thanking the doctor for his kindness. (13)
• It was barely two inches long; in another hour he would be in darkness. (1)
• The twenty-one whom they produced were now getting barely three per cent. (8)
• The theatre was a rageing darkness; and there was barely a light on the stage. (10)
• Yes, to you; for you are not of those who see too much in what is barely said. (10)
• Aminta had barely uttered a syllable since the start of the flight from Ashead. (10)
• But the pace was barely accelerated, and he concealed his reasons for invoking speed. (10)
• The road, barely visible, was rocky, the wagon rattled, and alongside ran a roaring stream. (7)
• Wilfrid was barely to be roused from his fit of brooding into which Pericles had thrown him. (10)
• There was no place but the bottom of the notch, and that was barely wide enough for the roadbed. (1)
• Away to the left of the pine-tree, the moon had floated up, soft, barely visible in the paling sky. (8)
• If agreeable, she could be wooed; if barely agreeable, tormented; if disagreeable, left as before. (10)
• At those words such a turmoil began taking place in Jolyon that he could barely sit still in the cab. (8)
• She had barely made a word intelligible; when Major de Pyrmont pointed to some officers approaching. (10)
• He had barely five weeks left to enjoy the new interest which had come into what remained of his life. (8)
• Within that defile, barely broad enough for a single gun, were piled the wrecks of no fewer than four. (1)
• He can barely mean, that a condition of drowsihead is other than providently warned by laughter of friends. (10)
• I could barely stand; and, on passing my hand upon my instep, perceived I had sprained my ancle in the fall. (6)
• In this matter of Joachim Heinzen, he stammered in a barely audible voice, why, one might discuss it, you know. (12)
• The room is clean and tidy, very barely furnished, with a brick floor and white-washed walls, much stained with smoke. (8)
• In the hall an adventure befell him so plump, and awkward, that he could barely recite it to Mrs. Rushbourne that night. (8)
• But Venetia had barely mounted the first bank of steps before she heard her name called in a loud voice from the street. (13)
• The news was almost unintelligible; those two were still for her barely more than little creatures to be tucked up at night. (8)
• In the presence of that cake this observation seemed to mask an irony so shrewd that Mrs. Berry could barely contain herself. (10)
• She suspected that his necessary attention to his toilet would barely have allowed him time to finish his copy of the letter. (10)
• To Matilda Pridden, his tales were barely decently the flesh and the devil smothering a holy occasion to penetrate and exhort. (10)
• Barely half a dozen words, before the sitting to that niggard restoration, had informed Carinthia of the step taken by her brother. (10)
• I dream, wake, forget my dream, barely dress before the pen is galloping; barely breakfast; no toilette till noon. (10)
• It is barely to be supposed that he should understand what in her love for him she sacrificed in giving up Italy, as she phrased it. (10)
• I wrote out many cheques, and still it appeared to me that they were barely sufficient to meet the current expenses of his household. (10)
• Those who can barely live, and who live perforce in a very small, and generally very inferior, society, may well be illiberal and cross. (4)
• She bore the national scar, which is barely skin-clothing of a gash that will not heal since her country was overthrown and dismembered. (10)
• Apollo chasing Daphne could have been barely polite to the wood-nymphs in his path, and Mr. Pericles was rude to the daughters of his host. (10)
• I myself can barely look back on those twenty years of amatory servility with a full comprehension of the part I have been playing in them. (10)
• Yet, in spite of his strong prejudice in favour of country-house life, he was not a rich man, his income barely exceeding ten thousand a year. (8)
• Her infinitesimal spells are seen; yet, despite experience, the magnetism in their repulsive display is barely apprehended by sedate observers until the astounding capture is proclaimed. (10)

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