Sentence for scarcely | Use scarcely in a sentence

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• He could scarcely breathe. (8)
• She scarcely ate and slept. (12)
• I can scarcely plead ignorance. (16)
• She had scarcely finished dressing. (12)
• Oh, I scarcely dare to hope anything! (9)
• He could scarcely believe in his ill-luck. (10)
• He could scarcely believe in his ill-luck. (22)
• My brother and myself are scarcely English. (10)
• Her pathos ways ready and scarcely controllable. (10)
• She could scarcely feel common pleasure in Rome. (10)
• She feared scarcely less that it might not be he. (10)
• He, on the contrary, scarcely looked at her at all. (10)
• This gentleman was no flatterer, scarcely a friend. (10)
• He scarcely ventured to hope for a second dismissal. (10)
• It was scarcely wise to write other than plain facts. (22)
• He then sat down by her, and talked scarcely to anyone else. (4)
• The tension was such that Christian dared scarcely breathe. (12)
• From their end of the room Thyme and Martin scarcely looked at her. (8)
• I had scarcely concluded my last, when Wilson brought me word of it. (4)
• It is Puritanism scarcely animated at all by the Puritanic theology. (9)
• It was scarcely half a day since he had parted in transport from Alice. (9)
• But scarcely anything less than the wild alarum of a tocsin will frighten him. (10)
• The sun had scarcely risen as I sprang from my bed, and started upon my errand. (6)
• It is scarcely possible that two men should be so grossly deceived by her at once. (4)
• Beaton scarcely understood it himself, perhaps because he was not yet twenty-seven. (9)
• The young man could scarcely believe his master was not stooping to jest with him. (10)
• Bernhardt was so unimpressive in it that you scarcely noticed the act of its delivery. (9)
• To Mr. and Mrs. Gardiner he was scarcely a less interesting personage than to herself. (4)
• She respects you: that is a sentiment scarcely complimentary to the ideas of young men. (10)
• But his laughter had scarcely died away ere the shrieks of drowning men rang in his ears. (19)
• Seemingly it was not easy to be evil or brutal on a wage that scarcely bound soul and body. (8)
• Never had I seen any thing so truly characteristic as this sketch, for it was scarcely more. (6)
• Thus, in his anxiety over his friend, Christian had scarcely thought of the pearls for days. (12)
• It need scarcely be told that his wife, fortified by the fervid brewer, defeated him utterly. (10)
• She had scarcely closed the door behind her when Lottie opened it and shut it again behind her. (9)
• Bitterly did he deplore a deficiency which now he could scarcely comprehend to have been possible. (4)
• Her letter was scarcely finished, when a rap foretold a visitor, and Colonel Brandon was announced. (4)
• Her nostrils took long draughts of air, but of the change of, scene she appeared scarcely sensible. (10)
• Barbara had scarcely realized this with a curious sense of discomposure, when Courtier was announced. (8)
• All the rest to come was mere business matter of the conflict, scarcely calling for a plan of action. (10)
• But the sun was already down; the air was chill; and we had scarcely a dry stitch between the pair of us. (2)
• Such a look from a civilian is exasperating: it was scarcely to be endured from an Italian of the plebs. (10)
• After such a discovery as this, you will scarcely affect further wonder at my meaning in bidding you adieu. (4)
• He could scarcely believe that he had on a sudden, and by strange agency, slipped into an earnest situation. (10)
• As I looked forth from my narrow crib, a more woe-begone picture can scarcely be imagined than that before me. (6)
• He was scarcely of the same mind as the gentleman from Cologne, for he had just waved his plump hand in protest. (5)
• Violetta smiled at the comedy she had been playing in, scarcely reproaching herself for not having imagined it. (10)
• Scarcely was this, the work of a second, accomplished, when the heavy tread of my pursuer resounded on the floor. (6)
• The element of charm, scarcely less than the elements of energy, integrity, and penetration, is a prime ingredient. (16)
• It may be safely stated that scarcely half of our New York morning and evening newspapers return an adequate profit. (16)
• Simple unfitness can scarcely be conceived of a captain having our common senses and a warranted pilot at his elbow. (10)
• As late as 1879, Saint-Saëns, who gave an organ recital at Milan, found the organ scarcely fit for an artist to play upon. (3)
• But in this pleasing hope I was destined to be disappointed, for I was scarcely seated in my place when I found him beside me. (6)
• He seemed scarcely to hear her, and was walking up and down the room in earnest meditation, his brow contracted, his air gloomy. (4)
• Her third attempt at a letter pleased her scarcely better than the rest, but she sent it, though it seemed so blunt and awkward. (9)
• Lady Charlotte, with her head over a map, and one hand arranging an eye-glass, hastily nodded them off, scarcely looking at them. (10)
• I scarcely needed to prompt him; he was only too glad to talk on about his business, and he spoke with a sort of homesick fondness. (9)
• She said that her son Jackson had written it out, and Westover found it so well written that he had scarcely to change the wording. (9)
• But why should his lady trouble herself for particulars of such people, whom it could scarcely be supposed she would meet by accident? (10)
• Yet for a period they went to and fro softly, with that peculiar hush of fear scarcely relieved, lest their hopes might be too strong. (13)
• She was precipitate in going forth to her commonplace fate, and scarcely looked at the man requested by Emma to escort her to her cottage. (10)
• But for the interest left them by the French, these tiny islands have scarcely any associations, and must be enjoyed for their beauty alone. (9)
• Well might his sister, believing as she really did that his opinion of Fanny Price was scarcely beyond her merits, rejoice in her prospects. (4)
• Those ladies who wore not imitation lace or any lace in the morning, were scarcely displeased with the beau for his exposure of them that did. (10)
• He would lift himself from their ranks, which he scarcely overtopped, as you came up the footway to his door, and peer purblindly across at you. (9)
• She could scarcely eat any dinner, and when they afterwards returned to the drawing room, seemed anxiously listening to the sound of every carriage. (4)
• The work is scarcely comparable to the music-dramas, yet every number is animated by the spirit of the words, and it is therefore dramatically true. (3)
• He thought proper to tell him that the public recognition he accorded to a particular lady was, in the present state of the world, scarcely prudent. (10)
• Mrs. Rushworth proposed that the chaise should be taken also; but this was scarcely received as an amendment: the young ladies neither smiled nor spoke. (4)
• Lady Russell, indeed, had scarcely any influence with Elizabeth, and seemed to love her, rather because she would love her, than because Elizabeth deserved it. (4)

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