Barely can be categorized as an adverb.
Adverb |
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| barely - only a very short time before; "they could barely hear the speaker"; "we hardly knew them"; "just missed being hit"; "had scarcely rung the bell when the door flew open"; "would have scarce arrived before she would have found some excuse to leave"- W.B.Yeats | ||
| barely - in a sparse or scanty way; "a barely furnished room" |
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| 1. | adv. | They could barely hear the speaker. | |
| 2. | adv. | A barely furnished room. | |
| 3. | adv. | It was an extremely amusing episode, watching Chalabi looking smug and amused, contrasted with Sha'lan, all serious and barely keeping himself from swearing. | |
| 4. | adv. | The main Kurdish coalition list (PUK and KDP) is barely mentioned outside the Kurdish region. | |
| 5. | adv. | It represents a person who is repulsive in appearance and action and is barely human. | |
| 6. | adv. | Ironically he almost burst out laughing and it was all he could do to keep his mirth down to a barely controlled smirk. | |
| 7. | adv. | Even a cotton cloth (I like diapers) that is barely damp w water will work fine. | |
| 8. | adv. | We only had a few sunny days this summer, barely 24C on a few occasions, more like 14C most days. | |
| 9. | adv. | The only neurological sign that he shows is that he barely drags his toes and sometimes has trouble with his right lead. | |
| 10. | adv. | I was experiencing severe back pain to the point I could barely walk or even bare to sit. | |
| 11. | adv. | Today I went into Kwik Kar and there were two cars in front of me for inspection...but I was still out of there pretty quick...barely had time to read a chapter in my book. | |
| 12. | adv. | The only thing that was edible was the steamed rice and the vegetable lo mein was barely tolerable. | |
| 13. | adv. | I barely missed being struck. | |
| 14. | adv. | I had barely got home when the storm broke. | |
| 15. | adv. | The swimmer, Cindy Nicholas, barely made it ashore at Dover at the end of the exhausting swim, but a spokesman from the Channel Swimming Association announced that she was in very good shape. |
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| They could barely hear the speaker. |
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| A barely furnished room. |
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| It was an extremely amusing episode, watching Chalabi looking smug and amused, contrasted with Sha'lan, all serious and barely keeping himself from swearing. |
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| The main Kurdish coalition list (PUK and KDP) is barely mentioned outside the Kurdish region. |
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| It represents a person who is repulsive in appearance and action and is barely human. |
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| Ironically he almost burst out laughing and it was all he could do to keep his mirth down to a barely controlled smirk. |
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| Even a cotton cloth (I like diapers) that is barely damp w water will work fine. |
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| We only had a few sunny days this summer, barely 24C on a few occasions, more like 14C most days. |
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| The only neurological sign that he shows is that he barely drags his toes and sometimes has trouble with his right lead. |
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| I was experiencing severe back pain to the point I could barely walk or even bare to sit. |
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| Today I went into Kwik Kar and there were two cars in front of me for inspection...but I was still out of there pretty quick...barely had time to read a chapter in my book. |
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| The only thing that was edible was the steamed rice and the vegetable lo mein was barely tolerable. |
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| I barely missed being struck. | |
| I had barely got home when the storm broke. | |
| The swimmer, Cindy Nicholas, barely made it ashore at Dover at the end of the exhausting swim, but a spokesman from the Channel Swimming Association announced that she was in very good shape. | |