Examples of 'barely contained' in a sentence
Meaning of "barely contained"
barely contained - This phrase describes a situation or emotion that is almost at the point of overflowing or erupting, suggesting a struggle to control or restrain something intense or powerful. It conveys a sense of imminent release or expression, as in 'Her anger was barely contained.'
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barely contained
My eyes barely contained the fire of my rage.
The ridicule and mockery was barely contained.
The couch barely contained this scream.
Lex lowered his voice into a barely contained growl.
That barely contained intense desire.
Panic that was just barely contained.
Barely contained inspiration.
But this book barely contained any action.
At this point, the crisis appears barely contained.
It sounds like barely contained panic to me.
Elsewhere in Europe, unrest is barely contained.
So much barely contained rage.
By the time of Constantine, it was smaller and barely contained any silver.
I recognized your barely contained contempt for anyone that thinks differently than you do.
She turns around with a grin barely contained by her face.
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The crowd barely contained with cords of Bobbies!
By the time of Constantine, the follis was smaller and barely contained any silver.
It was charged, pulsing with energy barely contained by its unbreakable chains . like a starving animal.
His behavior betrays a deeply-rooted anger, barely contained.
Her fingers barely contained him.
Watched over by its ancient enemies, the Raiel, the Void 's expansion is barely contained.
And that was barely contained.
And his lithe, green-tinged body ripples with barely contained anger.
In short, barely contained hysteria.
It's an enclosed space with limited exits, and about 300 barely contained zeros.
It is life barely contained.
I mean, really, you feel there is this barely contained explosion in there.
The greasepaints, the capering, the barely contained rage inherent in all their antics.
In an atmosphere of barely contained violence.
Whose obvious passion for Swift was barely contained beneath a cool facade.
In it, he writes with barely contained frustration.
Ten shivered, feeling as though he stood before a barely contained avalanche of deadly martial power.
Five years of chaos in the world, barely contained by Baluka and… more.
As recently as the 1980s, the countries barely contained their feelings of mutual contempt.
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