scarcely
IPA: skˈɛrsɫi
adverb
- (modal) Probably not.
- (modal) Certainly not.
- (degree) Hardly: only just; by a small margin.
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Examples of "scarcely" in Sentences
- A title scarcely less fit would perhaps be 'Studies into the
- The title scarcely gives an idea of the subject-matter of the poem.
- There was the home-made galley we had built, the familiar break of the poop, the low yacht-cabin scarcely rising above the rail.
- The participation of Hill and his artillery in the operation was so slight that his name scarcely appeared in reports of the day's operations.
- The participation of Hill and his artillery in the operation was so slight that his name scarcely appeared in reports of the day’s operations.
- Democ - racy was a term scarcely used before the French Revo - lution; by the beginning of the nineteenth century it had its firm adherents and its equally ardent enemies.
- Andrea Gabrieli's printed in Vol. I of Proske's "Musica Divina") although the term scarcely applies, save in another sense, to J.S. Bach's "Missa Brevis" (in A) comprising in its forty-four closely printed pages only the music of the Kyrie and Gloria.
- Great God! His yellow skin scarcely covered the work of muscles and arteries beneath; his hair was of a lustrous black, and flowing; his teeth of a pearly whiteness; but these luxuriances only formed a more horrid contrast with his watery eyes, that seemed almost of the same colour as the dun white sockets in which they were set, his shrivelled complexion, and straight black lips.
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