How to Use scarcely in a Sentence

scarcely

adverb

• This is scarcely a time to laugh.
• I could scarcely tell them they were wrong.
• Scarcely a day goes by when they don't see or talk to each other.
• He could scarcely control his joy.
• He had scarcely enough money.
• The table was the object of tourist lore, scarcely a few decades old.
  — Aatish Taseer, New York Times, 9 Nov. 2023
• Churilyana, 90, has scarcely left her apartment for the past five years.
  — Washington Post, 7 Mar. 2022
• In the city, scanning the skies showed only clouds, and gave scarcely a glimpse of the moon, if it could be seen at all.
  — Martin Weil, Washington Post, 30 Sep. 2023
• Its height is scarcely three feet, upon a base of more than thirty.
  — Jeff Suess, The Enquirer, 8 May 2022
• In logistic terms, what such a mission would look like has scarcely changed since the 1950s.
  — David W. Brown, Scientific American, 27 Jan. 2022
• We are swamped in the wake of their yachts and chopped up by the propeller blades, even if the billionaires, sitting on the top deck, scarcely feel a bump.
  — James Poniewozik, New York Times, 26 May 2023
• For scarcely for a righteous man will one die; yet perhaps for a good man someone would even dare to die.
  — Jill Gleeson, Country Living, 7 Apr. 2023
• The trains, roomy and twice the length of regular subways, arrive with scarcely a whisper.
  — Mark Landler, BostonGlobe.com, 14 May 2022
• Public health could scarcely have been worse in New Orleans.
  — Karin Wulf, Smithsonian Magazine, 19 Apr. 2022
• Copeland has lived this in her rise to the top of a profession where Black women have scarcely existed.
  — Washington Post, 11 Apr. 2022
• The three-hour-long film scarcely screened outside of China but earned $890 million in ticket sales.
  — Eamon Barrett, Fortune, 27 May 2022
• The saint becomes a kind of timebomb walking among them, and so the move towards tragedy and self-defeat scarcely comes as a surprise.
  — Jessica Kiang, Variety, 8 July 2023
• Joyce had half a dozen languages on his tongue but scarcely a cent in any currency in his pocket.
  — James Campbell, WSJ, 15 June 2022
• The iconic saguaros of the Sonoran Desert around Tucson scarcely bloomed this year—thought to be a reaction to stress and persistent drought.
  — Joy Williams, The New Yorker, 4 July 2022
• If packing out hundreds of pounds of meat, hide, and horns will send you to the orthopedic surgeon, a horse can do it and scarcely pull a deep breath.
  — David E. Petzal, Field & Stream, 23 Aug. 2023
• Shohei Ohtani is the greatest player on the planet, scarcely pausing to heist that title from teammate Mike Trout.
  — Gabe Lacques, USA TODAY, 6 Apr. 2022
• The town has been hit hard by the changing industry which has left scarcely any coal operators in business in the area.
  — David P. Zucker text By Dan Greene, The New Yorker, 27 Jan. 2023
• Most of the time in summer, a thunderstorm in the late afternoon scarcely surprises us.
  — Martin Weil, Washington Post, 22 July 2023
• The apartment was freshly painted white and scarcely furnished.
  — The New Yorker, 17 Oct. 2023
• How do women achieve a freedom they’ve scarcely been allowed to even imagine?
  — Los Angeles Times, 24 Jan. 2023
• Even several full days was scarcely enough time to examine the many editions published in the 18th and 19th centuries.
  — V.m. Braganza, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 Sep. 2023
• Alcaraz has so far shown so many of the benefits of youth — speed, strength, power, the optimism of a player who has scarcely any bad days — and so few of the pitfalls.
  — Matthew Futterman, New York Times, 8 June 2023
• Millimeter by millimeter, the plate had cut into the curve of the hook, which was scarcely an inch in diameter.
  — Katherine Blunt, WSJ, 25 Aug. 2022
• There was a time before his arrival in the NBA when the primetime networks debated whether to air games at all because they were so scarcely watched.
  — Selome Hailu, Variety, 6 Apr. 2022
• That is scarcely a concern to the president, who has portrayed himself as obliged to focus on high matters of state.
  — New York Times, 18 Feb. 2022

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