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.
• In the next were black storks, which have been scarcely present since the Middle Ages.
  — Sam Knight, The New Yorker, 15 Sep. 2021
• 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
• But the truth is, you are scarcely allowed the freedom to turn your brain off.
  — Sarah Bregel, Parents, 3 July 2024
• The smallest species are scarcely more than an inch long and the largest may reach more than two feet.
  — New York Times, 9 July 2021
• 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
• To be fair, Leto is scarcely alone in his quest for excess.
  — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 28 Nov. 2021
• Democrats can scarcely hide their sense of panic and dread.
  — The Editors, National Review, 28 June 2024
• The apartment, scarcely altered since, is a shrine to Pesce.
  — Matthew Schneier, Curbed, 14 Sep. 2021
• The debate inside the A.C.L.U. proved scarcely less charged.
  — New York Times, 6 June 2021
• The notes had scarcely stopped when a bull answered from dense pines far below.
  — Bruce Brady, Outdoor Life, 12 Sep. 2024
• How to write the biography of a man who scarcely lived?
  — Benjamin Kunkel, Harper's Magazine, 26 Oct. 2021
• The cast is scarcely recognizable and it was made with a slim crew.
  — Lindsey Bahr, Star Tribune, 10 Mar. 2021
• Its height is scarcely three feet, upon a base of more than thirty.
  — Jeff Suess, The Enquirer, 8 May 2022
• And some of them have scarcely been heard about outside Israel.
  — Bret Stephens, The Mercury News, 2 May 2024
• But there could scarcely have been a less opportune moment to press the point.
  — New York Times, 22 Apr. 2021
• In logistic terms, what such a mission would look like has scarcely changed since the 1950s.
  — David W. Brown, Scientific American, 27 Jan. 2022
• The maps show that, as recently as 1800, London had scarcely spread to south of the River Thames.
  — Washington Post, 12 Feb. 2021
• Not for her partner, who can scarcely contain his own spasms of grief.
  — Justin Chang Film Critic, Los Angeles Times, 6 Jan. 2021
• Colorado's largest lake at the time was 7,200-acre Lake Granby — scarcely a puddle on a Great Lakes scale.
  — Dan Egan, jsonline.com, 2 Sep. 2021
• Beyond it, the steeple of the church was lit, but scarcely visible through the flurries that drifted and darted in the air.
  — Greg Borowski, jsonline.com, 20 Dec. 2021
• 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
• One of its first big accessory hits, in 2019, was the Le Chiquito mini bag—a purse scarcely the size of a wallet that was both admired and lampooned.
  — Nathan Heller, Vogue, 17 Oct. 2024
• At the Democratic National Convention last month, climate change scarcely came up at all.
  — Umair Irfan, Vox, 23 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 15 Nov 2024