"barely" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- We just barely averted disaster because one woman couldn't control her temper.
- A riot was barely averted, and the meeting had to be terminated.
- He was still shaken from the barely averted arrest, by the carnage.
- A work stoppage was barely averted on August 31, when the two sides agreed to a new four-year labor deal.
- Ardis and many others had barely averted a worse disaster involving the High King.
- And once a disaster was barely averted.
- New York City barely averted bankruptcy in 1975.
- The savagery only kindles Bunny's appetite for a mass murder that is barely averted.
- Relief swells over yet another catastrophe barely averted.
- Blade noted the barely concealed hesitation over the choice of words, suggesting a barely averted slip.
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