"barely" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- One of these gentlefolk was an 80-year-old woman, dying of cancer while barely subsisting on the declining returns from her failing investments.
- Museum workers have long been regarded as secular saints in Russia, devoted to their work even as they barely subsist on meager wages.
- With the whole world starving and all those People's States barely subsisting on handouts from this country-where do you see any danger of war?
- More than half of Haiti's population is unemployed or barely subsisting on less than a dollar a day, and the manufacturers say the situation is desperate.
- Most of that time he had been cold and hungry, barely subsisting on the food he could find.
- Vendors are faced with so much regulation and harassment that they can barely subsist.
- They were rootless, barely subsisting.
- Here and there were a few bedraggled thorn bushes, barely subsisting in this dry, sere place.
- As the family continues to barely subsist, the "outside" seems to be creeping closer to the isolated families of the Appalachian region.
- She has accomplished what no contemporary writer has even attempted-to be that 'nobody' who barely subsists on her essential labors.
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