barely exist
Example Sentences
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Yet, to retreat carries no promise of safety — the rear defensive lines meant to give them cover barely exist, he said.
From Seattle Times • May 1, 2024
The population, estimated at around 300,000 people, reduced to a feral existence in a world where shops barely exist and aid never arrives.
From BBC • Feb. 24, 2024
In the geologic time scale, humans barely exist for the span of a breath and, for most of us, that's just long enough to be born into a cruel world and suffer its grief.
From Salon • Aug. 27, 2023
For good and for ill, those milk and honey farms would barely exist without the water being channeled in through herculean industrial effort from natural sources like the Colorado River.
From Los Angeles Times • May 15, 2023
In England, where emission controls barely exist, that rate has doubled.
From "All The Bright Places" by Jennifer Niven
