Example sentences for: scarcely

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

  • It would scarcely concern a Pecksniff that we suspected that he is not what we had first thought-- or hoped for.

  • One factor is the psychologizing of everyday life, a development that scarcely needs documentation.

  • But L is very hard to attain; very few people in the whole of England ever attain L. Not many even get so far as K. And what of M, and the murky letters which follow M, which include U, R and W? Who can even speak of W, which shimmers at the North end of the alphabet, scarcely visible from D. When I think of D, an image comes into my head that I am powerless to resist: it is the cross section of a mackerel.

  • That was scarcely more than the 5 percent who dared the pollsters' scorn by admitting outright that "the Clinton-Lewinsky matter" concerned them most.

  • Meanwhile, the Serbs' role in pushing the refugees onto the road in the middle of a war zone was scarcely mentioned.


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