Bouncers were barely sentient special units, tasked with the defense of the Festival against certain crude physical threats.
Very small, and barely sentient, they were nonetheless useful, if you knew how to coax them.
Eventually, of course, they encounter the humanoids, whom they regard as barely sentient animals.
"Even your barely sentient messages dream of homicide," Conrad said.
Already, too much had been lost for the barely sentient creatures that populated this planet to thwart what was the Exiles' right.
Gerard had expected the reptile to be barely sentient, to speak gibberish or, at the best, a corrupt form of Common.
The Sentience which possesses him is barely sentient at all, and knows only an all-encompassing hunger.
The creatures there - aside from his quarry - were barely sentient, by any thinking person's standards.
They appear to be barely sentient.
Unlike the D&D race, they were barely sentient.