To avoid splintering the other side, stop when the drill bit barely emerges.

Behind her is a dark-complexioned man whose face barely emerges from behind the shadow of his black hat.

Some flowers may also be produced on short stems that barely emerge from the leaf sheaths later in the season.

Other issues that have since become entrenched were barely emerging at that time.

His voice grew softer, until it barely emerged.

The flowers just barely emerge from between the bracts.

He barely emerged from his apartment for almost a month.

Timbuk was essentially a jungle planet, barely emerging from the carboniferous stage.

There have not been back-to-back quarterly declines in earnings since 1991, when the economy was just barely emerging from the last recession.

Above, I could see story after story rising to a lone tower that barely emerged from the dark, teeming rain.