How To Use Hardly In A Sentence

One can hardly believe that this paper mill was started from scratch only a few years ago.
The tranquility of Birch's daytime views hardly characterized the disputative climate surrounding the building, then and later.
-- _More beautiful, most beautiful_, etc. can hardly be called degree forms of the adjective. Higher Lessons in English A work on english grammar and composition
He could hardly be said to have "devised a feasible method for regular use. FINGERPRINTS: Murder and the Race to Uncover the Science of Identity
In principle, file-sharing is hardly different from tape-to-tape recordings that we all made when we were kids.

However, the measure intended to foster democracy will result in all three party leaders imposing a three-line whip on their respective MPs – a move hardly likely to ease the public's mistrust of Parliament. European Union: The referendum is an absurd sideshow | Observer editorial
They have been tearing away at the rubble for a week now, and more than 10,000 tonnes has been removed, But it has hardly made a dent in the mountain.
The ink is hardly dry on young Hay's new three-year contract.
First he was writing, then he was hiking, then he went to Argentina to clear his head and drive along the coast (a two mile narrow strip overlooking the intercoastal waterway, hardly scenic). Sanford visiting family in Sullivan's Island
His outlook could hardly have been helped by the cancelling of a perfectly good goal just after the quarter-hour, the linesman flagging for offside.
whatsit", and then Dr Watson may decide that dumpreg. exe is itself unresponsive so it launches further instance (s) of dumpreg. exe to report the failure (s) of the previous instance (s), and the system suffers a fatal embrace and hardly ever looks at the mouse and keyboard to see me hammering away in desperation. DonationCoder.com Forum
He always wiped the dirt or snow off, tucked his ripped shirt-tail in, or went yuk-yuk-yuk as he rubbed his reddening ass-cheeks, and the hate hardly ever showed. Blaze
Hardly a day passes without more bad news about the economy .
However, it is hardly an unsolvable mystery: remember that there were plants with sap, leaves, seeds, spores and pollen in the Paleozoic, long before flowering plants appeared.
Army, 'the professors said one to another, as, hardly stopping for a moment at the stranger's entrance, they continued to' jangle 'among themselves. A Book of Quaker Saints
This is hardly the time to discuss politics.
My grandfather's Purple Heart ," Frank replied with hardly a moment's hesitation. DEVIL'S CLAW
There's some mild postmodern fun to be had identifying these sources, but that's hardly the point.
An objection is not "outworn" until answered, and to speak of the demise of a generally accepted theory is hardly scientific. The Evolution of Man Scientifically Disproved In 50 Arguments
His second attempt was hardly more auspicious. Christianity Today
His St. Petersburg is another "Unreal City" whose wraithlike inhabitants leave hardly a smudge where they've passed. A Master of Technique
The reason a hurried "Oh, I hardly eat meat either" has become such a popular response to another's declaration of vegetarianism is usually not that we mean it, but that we now know enough about factory farming to want to stop Scully types from telling us any more. Nasty, Brutish, and Short
Vocab from The Varieties of Religious Experience aseity the property by which a being exists of and from itself; usually used in connection to God apodictic Necessarily or demonstrably true; incontrovertible.concatenated To connect or link in a series or chain.decide Of course, I already knew the definition; it's hardly an unusual word. Archive 2005-08-01
This bespeaks a progressive, enlightened court, hardly stifling and revolt-inducing.
I could hardly hear myself speak above all the hubbub in the theatre bar.
These hare-brained beliefs are hardly found only in the minds of the British upper-class.
Haven't had a chance to visit the other newer bookshops in kl, since I'm hardly in m'sia and I don't come from kl. A Quick Guide to Bookshop Chains
Obama has hardly any political experience prior to his precedency. McCain to vote against Sotomayor
The bestseller lists are full of books highly critical of religion, countered by pundits whose heated rhetoric decries a public square made “naked” by the absence of religion.2 Yet the fault line between those who are religious and those who are not hardly exhausts the ways in which religion can be divisive. American Grace
According to the way of thinking promoted by Horowitz and the Students for Academic Freedom, however, my forbearing critique would hardly have been enough to absolve the stain of the readings.
Inside a spacecraft in orbit round the Earth an astronaut could float weightless, hardly in contact with the floor.
D'ye know, that Irish lunatic absolutely ran the gauntlet of pandy fire to get back into Lucknow, and bring out Outram and Havelock in person (with the poor old Gravedigger hardly able to hobble along) just so that they could greet Sir Colin as he covered the last few furlongs? Fiancée
The other kind of holiday I like is going 10 miles from where you live, so that you have hardly any travelling time.
Rhetoric aside, his policies were hardly distinguishable from those of his predecessors.
If you play the fool, and lose a good job on consequence , you can hardly expect much sympathy.
Wanting a decent job and a home is hardly asking for the moon.
It hardly needs emphasizing that in Hong Kong, the quintessential open port, such flows of goods and of people were a long-established part of everyday experience by that time.
Had A.C. M. recollected that tobacco (_Nicotiana_) is an American plant, he would hardly have asked whether "_tobacco_ is the word in the original" of the tradition mentioned by Sale in his _Preliminary Discourse_, § 5.p. 123. (4to. ed. Notes and Queries, Number 77, April 19, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc
Her accent is so thick you could cut it with a knife— I can hardly understand a word she says.
The post added that it hardly burnished his image. Times, Sunday Times
So poor they can hardly exist.
The figure wearing dark suit, open-necked shirt and stubble, sheltering beneath an umbrella from the torrential rain outside a London cinema, could hardly look more glum.
There was a sickening lurch as my chute opened and my harness tightened round me so that I could hardly breathe.
We have no low buffoonery in the former, such as disgraces Enobarbus, and is hardly redeemed by his affecting catastrophe. The works of John Dryden, $c now first collected in eighteen volumes. $p Volume 05
But lack of social mobility is hardly new. Times, Sunday Times
When on horseback his legs hardly reached the lower body-line of his mount, and only his extreme agility enabled him to get on successfully. Blazed Trail Stories and Stories of the Wild Life
The importance of this book for the future of the Church of Christ can hardly be overstated.
The idea of consultation with disabled people is hardly a new one. Times, Sunday Times
One case, number 11, describes the management of a broken nose, and the treatment, involving rolls of lint within the nostrils and external bandaging, can hardly be bettered even by modern doctors.
She became withdrawn and pensive, hardly speaking to anyone.
Living close to the East Fortune Airfield, you hardly ever get through a day without seeing some kind of flying device in the sky, be it a microlight, heli-copter or, best of all, a jet.
In Martin Hengel's judgment ‘there is hardly one logion of Jesus which more sharply runs counter to law, piety, and custom’.
Talking may aggravate women, but can hardly make knives sharper or fire hotter.
Defy the tempest & the storm deride is not in the original nor is it good. ποθος [19] is hardly fierce desire — & all such expressions of ram-cat raptures are bad. by the by she a dark lanthern might have deprived us of this poem. your storm is very good — zounds I sweat at the bare idea of the Letter 138
When we got home, I had to help her off with her clothes because she could hardly move for fear of hurting her head.
There was hardly a dry eye in the cemetery as we farewelled a friend and relative.
I could hardly keep up it, and spilling bottles in all directions.
I could hardly believe I was creeping around my Cathedral with an exorcist. ABSOLUTE TRUTHS
As for those limitations of the "feminine mind" which render her unfit to consider the victuallage of a nation, or the justice of a tax on sugar; it hardly seems as if the charge need be taken seriously. The Man-Made World; or, Our Androcentric Culture
Remember, too, that he is hardly ever a monopolist: he works in fierce competition with fellow scalpers.
Michael was hardly able to think straight as he started to feel the effects of the pills, his vision foggy, and his mind a total mess.
They were so eager to close they could hardly get their ballpoints out fast enough.
Yet this is hardly an accurate assessment.
It hardly sets pulses racing, though. Times, Sunday Times
For most managers, hardly a day goes by without confronting the challenge of employee motivation.
Perhaps this is why beauty hardly qualifies as an aesthetic category any more.
Only prob. is I can't carry anything above my pack without it whacking the brim, hardly. Fishing hats...
His interpretation of those events was slightly, but hardly materially, different.
However, such a shocking thing as violence is hardly hinted at, and the Princess always succeeds, as the Creole lady in _Newton Forster_ said she did with the pirates, in "temporising," while her abductors confine themselves for the most part to the finest "Phébus. A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800
I can hardly blame the engineer who designs the hydraulic dredger, nor the driller at Exxon who mines oil for his boat, nor the construction woman who paved the ramp where the clammer launched his boat this morning. Industrialism and clams
He could hardly hear the sound of her footsteps, and somehow, she masked her prints in the grass.
Even the worst footballers' perms of the 1970s could hardly compete.
He could hardly believe his luck, and used his Northern grit and determination to become a local and national hero.
Hardly enough time for her brain to chum through the most pressing questions in world history. The Sun
She won't mind your being late - besides, it's hardly your fault.
This is hardly surprising, bearing in mind that no other adult animal naturally drinks milk.
Having said which, the goddesses Thetis, Athena, Hera and indeed the Trojan women, Hecuba and Andromache (and to an extent Helen) are all interesting characters in their own rights; as are most of the men, several of whom (this is hardly a spoiler) get horribly killed off during the conflict. March Books 17) The Iliad, by Homer
I knew the black hound's peculiarities, and was prepared for the appearance of a deer, unushered by the baying of hounds, but I had not expected the game to come so quickly, for Rufe had hardly had time to start the dogs. Golden Days for Boys and Girls, Vol. XIII, Nov. 28, 1891
In particular, the morphological structures of the evolving dust aggregates and, therefore, their dynamic coupling to the nebular gas motion and their further evolution have hardly been investigated empirically.
It therefore came to light that Mr. Jobbles had found that his clerical position was hardly compatible with a seat at a lay board, and he retired to the more congenial duties of a comfortable prebendal stall at Westminster. The Three Clerks
I hardly ever see a fish so large anymore, which were my constant companions when I began diving.
R. stretched out on the couch while G. and I unloaded the van but she could hardly wait to get into one of the rocking chairs on the front porch where we ate lunch and began the process of decompressing from our long journey.
Just as she got to the annoying one in the middle that she could hardly reach, another pair of hands buttoned it for her.
Rannie came by to check on me, but I was feeling so bad I hardly said anything to him.
Hardly a day goes by without a snippet to evoke the ghost of negative equity that followed the 1990s crash.
He looked up, hardly able to see her through the herringbone patterns that coruscated in front of his eyes.
It looked, to be sure, nothing like the milky portraits we had been shown in Sunday school, looked hardly at all like the handsome gentleman with the Aryan profile and the five-hundred-watt glow who effulged at us from calendars in Protestant parlors all over Dixie. Another Roadside Attraction
She could hardly bear to look on the livid face, the closed eyes, the thin dilated nostrils, and the painful expression of powerlessness that met her sight. The Semi-Attached Couple
Going into the final day on Thursday, there is hardly a threat to her title claim as second placed Nikita Arjun, Saniya Sharma, Nitika Jadeja and Nalini The Hindu - Front Page
They're never overly clever with anything that they do, chord progressions and bass lines are hardly contrived.
She could hardly expect her employer to provide her with testimonials to her character and ability.
Hardly anyone has bothered to reply.
He certainly gives a clear account of the growth of his belief, and sustains it by a great many droll notions about the physiology of plants, which would hardly be admissible in the botanies of to-day. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 77, March, 1864
'We can hardly be expected to foozle on purpose, just to let Archie show off before his girl.' The Man Upstairs and Other Stories
One can well forgive an author for relying on internet blitz chess to research openings grandmasters hardly ever play.
In return the Central Powers agreed not to seize any more Russian territory, hardly much of a bargain. Deathride
He could hardly have picked a more fearsome opponent. Times, Sunday Times
My question to Judith is how and why is the term skeptic hardly ever used anymore and only the perjorative term “denialist” used instead? Pain in Maine, but they can measure rain « Climate Audit
Even in this day and age, when unmarried mothers are hardly seen as shameless hussies anymore, there are still girls who suffer incredible loneliness because they daren't bring shame upon their families.
Mr. Klein plays Fender Rhodes, but it's hardly what you'd expect on your usual four-handed keyboard duo, even on the two duets, "Airport Fugue" and "Implacable. Friends, Sisters, Countrymen
A cold snap in winter is hardly newsworthy. Times, Sunday Times
Given the compendious nature of Wood's works, this is hardly surprising, of course.
For a single week of the summer, there will hardly be a coach or limousine available for miles around.
He could hardly contain his fury.
It is hardly possible to conceive a spot more effectually hidden from the eyes of all men, than this singular valley.
Working conditions/practices in the mill have hardly changed over the last twenty years.
He flew into hardly repressed passion, and wished himself clear of the whole household.
I would hazard a bet that hardly anyone knew or cared what the creators said.
Similarly, although nobody wants to be called a prude, one could hardly deny that being offended by non-abstinence sex education, pre-marital sex, and homosexuality is objectively anti-sex (that is to say: unmarried, non-heterosexual, and/or kinky sex). Matthew Yglesias » Also: The Sky Is Blue
A ryot cultivating alluvial lands, and having no seed, can hardly ever repay his advances; but it does not follow that he has been a loser, for he, perhaps, could not value his time, labor, and rent altogether at half the amount; and as long as this system is kept within moderate bounds, it answers much better than private cultivation to the manufacturer, and has many contingent advantages to the cultivator. The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, o
I know hardly anything about climate models: anything involving fluid mechanics is pretty much a closed book to me. Climate Bet Details, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
The house has been featured in a number of style and interiors magazines, which is hardly surprising when you consider the quality of the fixtures and fittings.
Indeed, ethical ‘debate’ on this model, can hardly be more than the airing of opinions.
But for a one-volume guide to a man who did more in a single lifetime than most could manage in 10, this authoritative and readable book could hardly be bettered.
And if we examine Frege's definitions of particular finite cardinals we see at once why the notion of cardi - nal numbers can hardly be extracted as traditional abstraction doctrines suggest. Dictionary of the History of Ideas
There was hardly a spare inch of space to be found.
The desert air contains hardly any moisture.
It was so foggy that the driver could hardly make out the way ahead.
Varieties of these give rise to further names, such as bettong or potoroo, but even among Australians these are hardly household words. VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol IX No 3
When he came to what I called my chateau, from nowhere, going nowhere, I hardly knew whether to call him young or old. Back to God's Country and Other Stories
Soccer is all very well as a game for rough girls, but is hardly suitable for delicate boys. Oscar Wilde
Deplorable as this preference may be, it's hardly as deplorable as the gulf which these cultural assumptions themselves created between the lowbrow public and the university-educated art world and artists.
He is hardly the only alienated character in the movie.
He hardly flinched when he was hit.
Though Antonio Valencia is hardly a like for like replacement for Ronaldo he is an exciting winger, with all the pace and control necessary to exploit the space he will find on United's right.
Unfortunately, due to the large number of papers presented at most sessions, hardly any discussion took place.
_What_ disaster it was that was thus knelled forth they knew not, and could hardly believe the tidings when given in articulate words. Great Britain and Her Queen
Ol 'Chuck there's hardly an Islamic scholar; his level of "scholarship" is too little to impress even a Muslim. JAFI Charles Johnson
Are you going out to search for it at this time of night? It seems hardly sensible.
Your first example hearkens back to the idea of quickening — the point at which a woman “feels” a child inside — hardly at the moment of fertilziation, indeed, often not until week 20 or even later depending on how the placenta is situated. Quote
A fat bee bumbled past, hardly clearing the ground.
But something so pleasurable hardly seemed like charity.
Even a casual observer could hardly have failed to notice the heightening of an already tense atmosphere.
Neither have various other usuries been included, such as high interest or payment of expenses in case of delays, all of which go to swell the gain that a Bisáya considers his right and his privilege when he has to deal with beings whom he hardly classes as men. The Manóbos of Mindanáo Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume XXIII, First Memoir
He looked hardly more than a child to me, maybe thirteen or fourteen.
I hardly watch any television, aside from news and current affairs.
This exhibition reminds us that such a result was hardly preordained.
I wasn't logged in at all (hardly use digg), just added the perpended digg. com/to the URL and then pasted it again on a new tab (chrome) with the digg Url. They're (still) a startup. Original Signal - Transmitting Web 2.0
The commitment to boycott Westminster would hardly cause a 'Sinn Feinner' like H.R. Jones to frown too much, and it's possible that demanding a monoglot Welsh speaking Wales would have been to his taste. Archive 2008-05-01
As for his name, I hardly think a formal introduction was necessary.
I get hardly any mail, bar the occasional postcard from my mother.
There may be some evidence to suggest she's guilty, but it's hardly conclusive.
Yet it can hardly be called nonmathematical, although little more than some simple geometry and arithmetic is needed to understand it. Dictionary of the History of Ideas
The TV appearance was so brief that it hardly warranted comment.
There was so much noise in the classroom that I could hardly hear myself think.
We can hardly blame them if so. Times, Sunday Times
There can hardly be a family in Ireland which did not lose sons or daughters to emigration during the 1950s.
Late last night, an anonymous resident from Akira Hall had recognized Aya and rekicked to her feed, but by then the fact that she had a name hardly mattered. Scott Westerfeld: Uglies Quartet
Statistics on unemployment levels hardly make for scintillating reading.
But hardly anyone has fussed about a more practical concern: Some of the more elaborate plate designs make it difficult to read the tag numbers.
And, though it should hardly need saying, ensure your bid is well written in grammatical sentences and (if appropriate) paragraphs. Freelance Writing: 7 Tips for Getting Well-Paid Work on Job Auction Sites | The Creative Penn
The terms of our law, which are not empty sounds, will hardly find words that answer them in the Spanish or Italian, no scanty languages; much less, I think, could any one translate them into the Caribbee or Westoe tongues: and the versura of the Romans, or corban of the Jews, have no words in other languages to answer them; the reason whereof is plain, from what has been said. An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
People discover they are capable of things they had hardly dreamt of, and realise talents and potentials previously crushed by the grind of capitalism.
The atmosphere in the room was so stuffy I could hardly breathe.
But the noise hardly concealed the fact that most Laborites wholeheartedly favor modernizing the state-owned railways, which cost the nation $500 million in 1962 alone.
It hardly needs Mr. Willkie to tell us that advances in aeronautics and the field of science generally have narrowed the physical boundaries of the world. The Making Of The Peace
But there were many sides to her, and he was after one she hardly knew about -- a snake pulled out of the stone instead of Excalibur. THE OPEN DOOR
I have ordered them not of chintz, but moreen, which is against your taste, and hardly according to my own; but the latter article proved on enquiry to be far the thriftier as well as the most comfortable; and therefore the best adapted for our purpose. New Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle
You can hardly move in this pub on Saturdays .
Bernice could hardly resist the urge to turn and run, but she supported Defries and retreated step by step.
The thing is, hardly anybody installs a silent alarm these days, except as a supplementary sys-tem.
His is the remarkable story of a young man with hardly any academic ability.
A day had hardly passed, after the second rejection of Mr. Canning at her door, before the thought of whistling him back again flashed luringly across Carlisle's mind. V. V.'s Eyes
Or when George's toe struck a stone, giving him intense pain which he could hardly contain soundlessly.
We couldn't have asked for a better day, around 19 degrees Celsius, a slight breeze and hardly a cloud in the sky.
She could hardly believe him capable of such kindness.
Romani, Imperium Populi Romani, Fortuna Populi Romani_, glitter out of the voluminous periods with a splendour that hardly any other words could give. Latin Literature
One searches the family portraits for resemblances and finds hardly a trace.
The original equations that Ed Lorenz derived were an extremely simplified version of the interaction of several spectral modes of the inviscid equations of motion and could hardly be called an accurate approximation of the full system of equations. Exponential Growth in Physical Systems #2 « Climate Audit
The latest news from the terror front is hardly all grim.
We should not confound uncharity with a sort of natural repugnance and antipathy, instinctive to some natures, betraying a weakness of character, if you will, but hardly what one could call a clearly defined fault. Explanation of Catholic Morals A Concise, Reasoned, and Popular Exposition of Catholic Morals
Grandiose though he was, he could hardly have imagined the fearsome awfulness of the twenty-first-century American imperium when he baptized its birth in the early days of the Second World War.
If you read these lines out loud, you can hardly avoid getting an impression of the intended rhythm.
Women dress up for men, but blokes hardly ever merchandise themselves for us gals.
The renewed violence this week hardly augurs well for smooth or peaceful change.
The crowd pressed together so tightly that we could hardly breathe.
The renewed violence this week hardly augurs well for smooth or peaceful change.
This row has already been rumbling on for five years and another six months will hardly be sufficient to soften the uncompromising attitudes of the two sides.
It hardly mattered that the couple of tunes that followed were bound to seem a slight anticlimax. Times, Sunday Times
Inside a spacecraft in orbit round the Earth an astronaut could float weightless, hardly in contact with the floor.
Over to the left I saw an unhappy little urchin, hardly a rag covering his shivering, bleeding body, grovelling piteously in the snow, while his blind and goitrous mother did her best at gathering firewood with a hatchet. Across China on Foot
This is hardly evidence for it to be the burial place of Khufu, let alone for anything else, although it is perfectly possible that Khufu was buried at this “special” place where later or earlier a pyramid was constructed. Name Stargate | SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles
So angry I could hardly speak, I forced myself to calm for a moment as I danced away with her in my newly-taught but unlearned club-footed manner.
I went out in Winchester briefly last night, and hardly recognised a soul.
There's hardly a bit of a pig you can't eat, from the head boiled up in a stewy soup to the trotters with their savoury jelly and morsels of meat.
The cutlass was a clumsy weapon, but sea fighting was hardly a fine art. Sharpe's Devil
There is hardly any pleasure like good oarsmanship. Bog-Myrtle and Peat Tales Chiefly of Galloway Gathered from the Years 1889 to 1895
The ward was busy and Amy hardly had time to talk.
While his voice was hardly dissenting, it was heavy with cautiousness and pragmatism.
Mr. Catlin, who could hardly be called reticent, at once made plain his feeling about the Missouri, the river that was to carry them some two thousand miles into the mysterious reaches of the West. The Berrybender Narratives
The newsweeklies can hardly get their biased pieces onto news-stands nowadays before they're discredited.
With hardly a credible debate on the rationale and justification of rapid disinvestment, some of the most profitable or strategically important public sector undertakings are being privatised.
This is hardly the first time that a major media network used its power to marginalize political beliefs that contradict those of its owners.
The new ball bowlers cannot, it seems, swing the ball; the slow bowlers can hardly spin it.
The action starts at 2 pm, and as a political tragic, I can hardly wait!
The children were hardly awake and watched Tess with big round eyes.
July 15, had to raik up the yard. i aint been fishing hardly this summer. darn the minister. Brite and Fair
I need hardly say what a pleasure it is to introduce our speaker.
The army, however, is hardly a neutral arbiter.
You could hardly call it normality, especially in a country that prefers the inelegant word ‘normalcy’.

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