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
He allowed only the feeblest colonies to survive; the second or third swarms, which had barely sufficient food to endure through the winter.
From The Children's Life of the Bee by Maeterlinck, Maurice
