I could barely speak the next words, but they had to be said.

We barely spoke during the drive to her father's house.

But when they got back, he barely spoke to them.

We barely spoke for a period of six or seven years, and I really didn't understand why.

By the end of last year, those two men were barely speaking to each other.

He did not know the old ways and barely spoke the language.

He kept to himself for the first week, barely speaking to anyone.

The two barely spoke to one another for the next six years.

His wife died six months later, leaving him alone in a country where he barely spoke the language and had no friends.

Throughout the early part of last season, they barely spoke at all.