barely eat

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  • He'd barely eaten any breakfast.
  • She was so sick she could barely eat anything for a week.
  • I was so nervous before the exam that I could barely eat.
  • During the war, the family had so little food they could barely eat.
  • After his dog died, the little boy would barely eat or speak.
  • He's working two jobs and can barely eat a proper meal.
  • My toddler is so fussy; he'll barely eat the vegetables I give him.
  • The elderly patient has been barely eating for days.
  • The food at the camp was so terrible that most of us would barely eat it.
  • She was too excited to sleep and had barely eaten her dinner.