Now he only barely seems to comprehend what went wrong.

She turned back to him, but seemed barely to be listening.

Her eyes were wide; she seemed barely to be breathing.

Some of the lost seem barely to have been known.

Yet the artist himself, sitting across the table from her, barely seems to be in the picture at all.

She seemed barely to notice that he was even there.

Sometimes they barely even seemed to know their little peace.

They barely seemed to notice me, going on about various people I'd never heard of.

Male or female, they all seemed barely out of their baby fat these days.

These brothers barely seem to have met each other before.