barely exist

The word “Dagestan” seems to barely exist in casual Kremlinology.

The walls are damp and dingy; in these sombre yards, where a few sickly trees barely exist, all is solitude and abandon.

It may barely exist under one class of conditions, or it may perish under another.

What we term villages barely exist, and the nearest approach to them is a group of farms with a church in the neighbourhood.

Hunting is his profession, but it is one by which he can barely exist.