adverb
definition
(degree) By a small margin.
definition
(degree) Almost not at all.
example
The plane is so far away now I can barely see it.
definition
Merely.
Examples of barely in a Sentence
He barely talked to me.
Her mouth felt dry and her voice was barely a whisper.
Yancey was barely breathing hard.
They barely knew each other.
Barely a decade earlier, Cleveland, also a Democrat, had said essentially, "Look, the government shouldn't be helping the poor Texans; that's the role of charity."
His voice was barely more than a whisper.
When Connie arrived, Lisa had barely buckled her seatbelt before she started asking questions.
Her heart beat so hard, she could barely make out his response.
We barely know each other.
It was barely enough to water a mule at a time.
He had started the clinic shortly after they were married, so his dream was barely being realized.
His arms barely reached his ears.
Because we barely know each other.
In that moment of obvious joy, Alondra barely had an accent.
Barely visible a half mile or more across the water were a few other camps.
I'd barely put the phone down before it rang again.
It ran into a narrow cleft which he had not seen before, and then through a long, dark passage which was barely large enough for a man's body.
But this he was unable to do, for he received tidings that the French had unexpectedly advanced, and had barely time to remove his own family and valuables from his estate.
You have picked out a suit, a sharp grey one with barely detectable pinstripes.
It seemed that she had barely dropped off to sleep, before someone was pounding on her door.
He came back but he's barely speaking to me.
She stumbled back after leaving the door open barely enough for Dean to enter.
She was barely holding her own tears.
By comparison, if a country has 99 percent of the people working in agriculture—if it is barely feeding itself, even with everyone working at that—then it is living at a subsistence level, the very definition of poverty.
That was before my time, just barely.
Ving pulled up and barely made it out of the car before Rainy grabbed him and slammed him over the hood.
He barely hit me.
Deidre followed, barely able to make out the shape of a doorway that pulsed darker than night.
She had barely sat when a servant bearing a tray of coffee and diet root beer -- her favorite --set down the drinks in front of her.
He glanced at Connor who barely contained his rage.
The woman who captured his heart in a week, something you barely did after millennia!
Even Kris was better than any of these creatures, and she'd barely tolerated him!
She tried to pull away, but he pressed her harder against the wall until she could barely breathe.
He and Kris are barely working together as it is.
She was barely on her feet and debated whether or not she'd get up to turn off the light or fall asleep right there.
She's barely made it this long, Rhyn.
He circled his statue, barely recalling his life growing up.
At barely above her height and slender, the mad scientist was very unlike the Immortal warriors that filled the castle.
She barely knew the man at her back, but she.d felt his absence even during the few hours in the day they weren.t together.
She barely suppressed a smile.
Her words were barely comprehensible through chattering teeth as she leaned over the stove.
She found the goat and her newborn kid exactly where she expected them - and barely in time.
Carmen had barely settled in at home before Lori drove up and whisked Alex away.
She gave a startled cry and fell back, barely escaping a hand trying to grab her.
He doubted she'd ever been in a situation where she'd barely escaped being raped, and he knew she'd never shot anyone or seen anyone's head get blown off in front of her.
He'd barely managed to walk away from her earlier.
They looked barely able to hold her, let alone Brady!
The people of the town had barely survived an apocalypse Mr. Tim and others should've prevented.
She'd never give me the time of the day. She barely even makes time for Darkyn.
Rhyn moved to the door leading to the block, unable to help the small tremble of his hand. Not only had he spent too long in this very place, he'd seen Katie hurt here and barely escaped alive with her.