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Example sentences for: scarcely

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The official guests had scarcely left Bali when Gunung Agung exploded in what was the most violent eruption the island had seen in centuries.
I am inclined to question the accuracy about the terms known to have arisen in the 20th century, for I found quite a few of much earlier date, but that can scarcely be an adverse criticism.
It would scarcely concern a Pecksniff that we suspected that he is not what we had first thought-- or hoped for.
The next task for the footnote, scarcely begun, is the mastery of electronic information, an undertaking that offers opportunities for utility and mischief on an incomparable scale.
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.