Example sentences for: scarcely

How can you use “scarcely” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • It is scarcely surprising that Ethiopian or Kenyan distance runners do better than everyone else, since they are in the habit of running immense distances to and from primary school, middle school, and high school.

  • `Geiger tube']), but how it can be so analyzed, when the counter sense is inherent in the function of the device, and `Geiger' can scarcely be said to be a “translation” of Geiger , is a little hard to justify.

  • Without the Malone of the early 1990s, the whole concept of the information superhighway--with its 500 TV channels, its interactive television, its high-speed Internet access, and online banking and shopping--could scarcely have existed.

  • Mehta on Shawn: "His words were so generous that I could scarcely find my tongue, even to thank him."

  • ' The pronunciation “for-tay” is an illiteracy, scarcely attributable (as given here and in various dictionaries) to a confusion with the musical direction so pronounced because that is a loanword from Italian: those who know about musical directions are not likely to blunder that badly.


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