Example sentences for: scarcely

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

  • Of course, the picture in your local newspaper of the fund-drive chairman handing an oversized check to the mayor features smiles that are scarcely more genuine.

  • To impute such sacrifices to a desire for speed is not only a misinterpretation of the evidence but a curious thing to say, for those who are in a hurry are scarcely likely to stop everything, pick up this (or any other book) to check something, and then resume their headlong plunge into the solecistic abyss.

  • Once you hear it you scarcely hear anything else.

  • The gate was left isolated in no-man’s land when the Wall went up, and subsequently became the scene of quite ecstatic celebrations when it came down, though now you would scarcely believe it as Berliners cross nonchalantly from east to west through Brandenburg’s mighty central arch.

  • Scarcely a hundred Sumatran Rhino remain; the best place to see them is at the Sepilok sanctuary, where controlled breeding may combat the ravages of poaching.


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