Barely
Barely adverb - By a very small margin.
Mortally
Mortally adverb - To a great degree.
Usage example: I'm mortally certain that I've seen that guy before
Both words in one sentence
- Heston actually delivers the line in a barely audible whisper from a stretcher after being mortally wounded.
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At the end of Halo: Ghosts of Onyx, Kurt Ambrose is mortally wounded and barely able to stay conscious when the Elite commander approaches the rapidly closing portal that Kurt had stayed to defend.
Source: You Are Not Alone - Heroic Sacrifice: In Chapter 6, mortally wounded and barely combat-effective, Yamato decides to invoke Operation Ten-Go, to deliberately draw Abyssal attention on herself, away from Okinawa's civilian population.
Source: Fanfic / The Greatest Generation
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