How to use scarcely in a sentence

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• The diver pierced the surface of the water with scarcely a splash.From the entry pierce
• He seemed to have all sports knowledge at his fingertips: we could scarcely finish a question before he had answered it.From the entry at one's fingertips
• I scarcely ever see you anymore!.From the entry ever
• Bruce would scarcely have found this sufficient cause to turn his coat.2012, Nigel Tranter, The Wallace, →ISBN. From the entry turn one's coat
• I suppose though your feelings have become so bachelorized that you can scarcely realize my pleasure.2011, Etta Degering, McGuffey: The Greatest Forgotten Man, page 77. From the entry bachelorize
• With white anglospherian immigrants (who are not trivial in number) there is scarcely any issue here.2006 October 22, Energoumenos, “Will Labour be the 'anti-immigrant' party at the next election?”, in uk.politics.misc (Usenet). From the entry Anglospherian
• Today you scarcely see an advert that isn't sending up itself.2004 November 18, William Cook, “All in the worst possible taste”, in The Guardian. From the entry send up
• I had lived with him, scarcely conscious that he had an individual smell at all.2002, Ronald Frame, Permanent Violet, Polygon, →ISBN, page 185. From the entry turpsy
• He presupposedly has the credentials of a scholar but it was scarcely the act of a gentleman.1988 January 28, Thomas J. O’Donnell, “Insensitive remarks”, in Lincoln Journal, page 9. From the entry presupposedly
• No, that could scarcely be; eagles were not nightfowl, nor would one descend this close to humans.1980, Poul Anderson, Conan the Rebel, page 165. From the entry nightfowl
• Yet in truth there is scarcely any contemporary Bashi-Bazoukery on Bulgarian soil.1979 October 20, Tim Garton Ash, “The Bulgarian horrors”, in The Spectator, page 10. From the entry bashi-bazoukery
• It’s a quality for which they are loved—it may be by those who scarcely know them.1974, Philip Freund, “Charles IV”, in More Off-Broadway Plays, page 34. From the entry there're
• In old Chinese documents there is scarcely a mention of the carpets of east Turkestan.1970 [1964], Reinhard G. Hubel, “The carpets of East Turkestan”, in Katherine Watson, transl., The Book of Carpets, West Germany: Praeger…. From the entry East Turkestan
• Beowulf had scarcely died before the faint-hearts came crawling out of their burrows.1961, Norma Lorre Goodrich, “Beowulf”, in The Medieval Myths, New York: The New American Library, page 48. From the entry faint-heart
• Sunday vaudeville is the best showcase in town." Betty could scarcely breathe.1960, Rowland Barber, “Mlle. Fifi from Paris, France”, in The Night They Raided Minsky’s: A Fanciful Expedition to the Lost Atlantis of…. From the entry mama
• The upshot, I need scarcely say, was that I came down like a sack of coals.1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, chapter VIII, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, →OCLC. From the entry disembodied
• My father 'would read my school reports with a gloom which in other respects they scarcely warranted.1951, John Wyndham, The Day of the Triffids, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, published 1954, page 25. From the entry head
• "Anyway, we have the triffids controlled well enough so it's an academic point and scarcely worth raising."1951, John Wyndham, The Day of the Triffids, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, published 1954, page 49. From the entry academic
• He had done something that had scarcely ever happened during the centuries-long history of the Prussian Army.1942, Curt Ries, “The Betrayal of a Caste”, in The Self-Betrayed: Glory and Doom of the German Generals, New York, N.Y.: G. P. Putnam’s…. From the entry centuries-long
• When we finally beached, the land was scarcely less wet than the sea.1941, Emily Carr, “Salt Water”, in Klee Wyck. From the entry beach
• Richardson tells us scarcely so much, yet he persuades us so much the more.1936 November, Robert Palfrey Utter, Gwendolyn Bridges Needham, “The Lass with the Delicate Air”, in Pamela’s Daughters, New York, N.Y.…. From the entry brune
• If it weren't for the Fleet I should scarcely be able to endure it.1928, Hart Crane, letter, 27 April. From the entry gob
• Some preservings of foods, indeed, can scarcely be done to advantage except on a large scale.1924, Wilbur Olin Hedrick, The Economics of a Food Supply, page 26. From the entry preserving
• You've got him so leery he scarcely dares to come here.”1920, Sinclair Lewis, chapter XIV, in Main Street: The Story of Carol Kennicott, New York, N.Y.: Harcourt, Brace and Howe, →OCLC. From the entry leery
• There is scarcely a section of Republican or Democratic platform that a voter would refuse to accept.1920 March 18, E. W. Anibal, “To-Day’s Prize Letter”, in New York Tribune, volume LXXIX, number 26,786, page 9. From the entry politicese
• Furlong senior himself calculated, was scarcely sufficient to pay the overhead charge of collecting it.1914, Stephen Leacock, Arcadian Adventures with the Idle Rich. From the entry offertory
• “In the jungle one would scarcely stand supinely aside while another took his mate.1913, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Return of Tarzan, New York: Ballantine Books, published 1963, page 17. From the entry supinely
• There is scarcely a business man who is not occasionally asked to go bail for somebody.1912, The Bookseller, Newsdealer and Stationer, volume 36, page 17. From the entry go
• But for the prospective draw for the wig—which reintroduced the aleatory—life would scarcely have been bearable.1910, Israel Zangwill, The Grey Wig. From the entry aleatory
• He described the service as ‘preserved in aspic, speaking with the plummy tones of a Britain that scarcely existed any longer’.Johnston, G., Robertson, E. (2019). BBC World Service: Overseas Broadcasting, 1932–2018. Germany: Palgrave Macmillan UK. p.285. From the entry preserved in aspic
• With scarcely a head, the face is obliterated by shadow.2013, Griselda Pollock, Differencing the Canon, page 49. From the entry giantesque
• This is scarcely the first crisis involving what an Australian victims' group, Broken Rites, has termed black-collar crime.2010 March 19, Riazat Butt, John Hooper, “Calamity for pope as the past – and case of Peter Hullermann – returns to haunt him”, in The…. From the entry black-collar
• The park is not just a place of lost civilizations, but vanished uncivilization, a Manhattan scarcely marked by human hands.2008 March 22, Jim Dwyer, “In a City Park, a Crime Against Nature”, in New York Times. From the entry uncivilization
• Many of our hymns begin with it, and scarcely any, that are good for anything, end without it.2008, Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Devotional Classics of C. H. Spurgeon, →ISBN, page 8. From the entry sum total

Meaning of scarcely

1. adverb Probably not.
2. adverb Certainly not, hardly at all.
3. adverb Hardly: only just; by a small margin.

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Questions about scarcely in a sentence

How do you use scarcely in a sentence?

Scarcely is used as an adverb. For example: “One could scarcely find any trout in the stream without the stocking program.”

What is a short sentence with scarcely?

“I scarcely ever see you anymore!.”

What does scarcely mean?

Scarcely means probably not.