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Example sentences for: hardly

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At the present rate, French, which still appears along with English in my American passport and which sometimes still fills full-page ads in The New Yorker, may wind up like Greek—a language providing access to the roots of world culture but hardly worth learning for the conduct of mundane affairs.
In short, nothing in the stories alleviates a creeping suspicion that this disease, while of great concern to newspaper editors with summer places in Connecticut and children at Camp Heapumwampum, is hardly on a par with say, rat bites, lead-paint poisoning, and malnutrition suffered by inner-city kids.
I can hardly believe I am having this problem in this day and age.
Nothing very significant can be said about taxes in general, except that hardly anyone likes them.
As with so many trends spotted by the linguistic police, however, this is hardly new.