barely sufficient

Example Sentences

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“Resources that were already barely sufficient for the poorest will now have to stretch even further.”

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 27, 2026

The BBC understands that conditions in the camps are unsanitary, food barely sufficient, and many of the freed workers, like Mike, are in poor health.

From BBC • Feb. 26, 2025

Arif Ullah, an 18-year-old refugee living in the camps, said the existing food allowance was barely sufficient.

From Reuters • Feb. 17, 2023

LeBron’s rampages were barely sufficient against the Pacers and appear to be in vain against the Celtics when Al Horford is playing the most forceful two-way ball of his career.

From New York Times • May 18, 2018

One narrow passage, of barely sufficient width for an elephant, leads to the water, which lies at the bottom of a deep narrow gully with inaccessible banks.

From The Highlands of Ethiopia by Harris, William Cornwallis