Meanings of barely capable in English

He felt weak, unable to speak, barely capable of holding on.

And there was her team, beaten down, barely capable of speech.

It was a hideous garbled voice, barely capable of human articulation.

She felt only barely capable of handling a dinner party.

Viper grimaced, barely capable of keeping his head lifted.

Each just barely capable of getting a tiny payload to a dangerously low and short-lived orbit.

A flash of touching, a swipe of tongues, then she withdrew, barely capable of drawing breath.

Her eyes were riveted on the housekeeper: she was barely capable of preserving the appearance of composure.

He is barely capable of breathing.

The last time I'd seen her, she'd been a wasted, frail, white-haired thing barely capable of stringing sentences together.

With an energy coil about one-third the size of a Warthog it was barely capable of concealing three Spartans.

Out she came, her legs gone, back gone, head very possibly gone, barely capable of standing let alone lifting.

But now, when the danger was at its greatest, he discovered himself barely capable of concentrating upon the threat very much at hand.

On the field, barely capable of making a save in his first season -but did perform well in last season's Carabao Cup.

It amazed him that those skeletons, who looked barely capable of carrying their own shadows, could haul a hundred pounds any distance at all.

Every half-hour or so the most inglorious symbol of Britain's railway history rattles in, belching diesel fumes, brakes screeching, its doors barely capable of opening.