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US
/ˈskɛɹsɫi/
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[ UK /skˈeəsli/ ]
[ UK /skˈeəsli/ ]
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almost not
they scarcely ever used the emergency generator
he hardly ever goes fishing
we were so far back in the theater, we could barely read the subtitles
she barely seemed to notice him
he was scarce sixteen years old
I can hardly hear what she is saying -
only a very short time before
we hardly knew them
had scarcely rung the bell when the door flew open
would have scarce arrived before she would have found some excuse to leave
How To Use scarcely In A Sentence
- They are very much secluded from the rest of Chiloe, and have scarcely any sort of commerce, except sometimes in a little oil, which they get from seal-blubber. Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle
- Freedom was alive as well, in a vivid and scarcely palatable way. Times, Sunday Times
- The English were among the first to revive the "Louis XIV style" as it was miscalled at first, and paid inflated prices for second-hand Rococo luxury goods that could scarcely be sold in Paris.
- I. ii.188 (19,2) [There is a prone and speechless dialect] I can scarcely tell what signification to give to the word _prone_. Notes to Shakespeare — Volume 01: Comedies
- When hard-pressed, they soon take to the water, and swim so well that a four oared boat can scarcely come up with them, but an Esquimaux in his kaiak more readily overtakes them. The Moravians in Labrador
- Neruda is master of a living world in turmoil, and his expression is at times scarcely more than a sibylline stammer, a primitive muttering.
- What is at stake in this novelty could scarcely be greater.
- Scarcely had I managed, helped by the second mate, Aaron Northrup, to lower away half-a-dozen barrels and kegs, when all cried from the boat that they were casting off. Chapter 19
- Expectations, helpfully, could scarcely be lower.
- In Athens they scarcely appear above the horizon, so the early Greek texts undermined their importance.
