barely exist

Yet, to retreat carries no promise of safety — the rear defensive lines meant to give them cover barely exist, he said.

The population, estimated at around 300,000 people, reduced to a feral existence in a world where shops barely exist and aid never arrives.

The 40-minute episodes also highlight that some of these people barely exist in the same universe.

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.

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.