In modern America, a community of that size would barely warrant a post office.

On deck, the other men sat around and chatted equably as though what they had just done and witnessed was so banal an affair as to barely warrant a fleeting reference.

Beaufort was, and always will be, on the smallish side, but when I was growing up, it barely warranted a place on the map.

Illegal dumps are unearthed so often that they barely warrant a headline.

A bad fire in a big Hotel in Italy probably would barely warrant a column in the Guardian.

Normally, Commissioner Slavit's courtroom would barely warrant mention.

(Fez also has a modern city, built by French colonials in the early 20th century, though it barely warrants a glance.)

Thurr studied historical databases, scanning propaganda-laced histories of the Jihad, and was annoyed to discover that he barely warranted a mention!

The shrivelled spinach drowning in Domino's cheese is so inconsequential it barely warrants a mention.

Gaslight, the term itself, has become so synonymous with a certain brand of malevolent scheming that the story line barely warrants repeating.