Definition of “barely”

Every June, Denmark's four-day rock jamboree tickles the pleasure zones that other outdoor rock events can barely even spell.

Fans would have had to watch the action on a screen barely bigger than a business card.

I've spent the last month in Bain, and have barely been troubled.

Lirael closed her eyes against the glare, and she felt herself slip towards the edge of dream, her conscious mind barely awake.

Not a little alarmed, I had a close look at the barely touched plates.

She was becoming more and more alien to me, almost as if she were someone I barely knew at all.

The man had been hanged from the branch of a small olive tree that could barely hold his weight.

There is barely any competition in the local telephone market in Canada, the commission said in a recent report.

Yet the West, which fought to liberate them and is still fixated by the war against the Taliban, has barely noticed.