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How to pronounce barely in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms hardly, scarce, scarcely


she barely seemed to notice him.
we were so far back in the theater, we could barely read the subtitles.
Type Words
Synonyms just


it was barely 5 a.m..
the network has barely 5 percent of viewers.
Type Words
Synonyms hardly, just, scarce, scarcely

Examples of barely

barely
Consumer prices barely changed in November, the Labor Department said Wednesday.
From the thenewstribune.com
Knight hit a 3-pointer barely 3 minutes in, and Kentucky kept right on shooting.
From the sacbee.com
The Coliseum Cafe is a dimly lit, barely decorated and much-beloved institution.
From the online.wsj.com
When he earned a starting spot on varsity as a freshman, he was barely 5-foot-2.
From the dailyherald.com
December's median home price barely improves and sales fall from a year earlier.
From the latimes.com
It's freezing, there's barely any oxygen and it has claimed more than 200 lives.
From the cnn.com
The cellar was cold and barely lit, and oak barrels were stacked up the ceiling.
From the businessweek.com
The Philippines can barely handle a political crisis, let alone an economic one.
From the businessweek.com
It remains one of the world's poorest countries and is still barely scraping by.
From the businessweek.com
More examples
  • Only a very short time before; "they could barely hear the speaker"; "we hardly knew them"; "just missed being hit"; "had scarcely rung the bell when the door flew open"; "would have scarce arrived before she would have found some excuse to leave"- W.B.Yeats
  • Scantily: in a sparse or scanty way; "a barely furnished room"
  • Barally is a city in Bareilly district in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. Standing on the Ramganga river, it is the capital of the Bareilly division and the geographical region Rohilkhand. It is a center for the manufacture of furniture and for trade in cotton, grain, and sugar. ...
  • By a small margin; Almost not at all; merely
  • Just; certainly not more than (a particular amount, age, time, etc.).