"barely" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Four years ago, Ms. Marinelli could barely swim.
- In "Part VIII" Jason wipes out most of a high school class on a cruise ship, then swims to Manhattan barely in time to justify the film's title.
- At last I broke the surface, sputtering and coughing, so weak I could barely swim to shore.
- I could barely swim a length of a swimming pool.
- Bakari, who could barely swim and had no life vest, clung to a piece of aircraft wreckage, floating in heavy seas for over nine hours, much of it in pitch darkness, before being rescued.
- At the start of the summer he could barely swim.
- It generally swims just barely above the bottom, favoring flat areas near rocky reefs or gullies, and seldom rises into open water.
- Although she was once an athletic young woman, she says she now cannot bicycle or hike and can barely swim because she cannot get enough oxygen to her muscles to sustain such activities.
- That was all I would need to drown me in the soup I was barely swimming in.
- He was of the High Ranges, and could barely swim, but if he dove into the water now, could the thing not kill him and bury the axe with stones flung from the land?
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