Synonym: hardly, just, scarcely. Similar words: barrel, rely, rely on, entirely, severely, relatively, bar, bare. Meaning: ['beəlɪ] 
adv. 1. by a small margin 2. in a sparse or scanty way.
adv. 1. by a small margin 2. in a sparse or scanty way. 
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1, He barely escaped being pawed by the dog.
2, Sunlight barely penetrated the dirty windows.
3, The act was barely justified by the circumstances.
4, He growled with barely controlled fury.
5, Our accommodation is barely adequate.
6, He could barely read and write.
7, They had barely time to catch the plane.
8, His lips curved in a barely perceptible smile.
9, He waited with barely concealed impatience.
10, Her face was barely discernible in the gloom.
11, There was a barely veiled hostility in her tone.
12, A viral illness left her barely able to walk.
13, He could barely afford the railway fare.
14, At times,(http://sentencedict.com/barely.html) the heat was barely tolerable.
15, I barely restrained myself from hitting him.
16, The water was barely dribbling out of the tap.
17, In August the heat is barely tolerable.
18, The hills were barely visible through the mist.
19, The fake was barely distinguishable from the original painting.
20, Her speech was slurred and barely comprehensible.
21, Her foreign accent was barely perceptible.
22, The islanders could barely survive without an export crop.
23, Though nearly twenty he was barely literate.
24, The male bird is barely distinguishable from the female.
25, She was barely able to stand.
26, The truck barely skinned through the gate.
27, Pasternak gave him a barely perceptible smile.
28, She was very old and barely able to walk.
29, We barely had time to catch the train.
30, Anastasia could barely remember the ride to the hospital.