Sentences with scarcely
scarce·ly
S s - He could scarcely breathe.
- It can scarcely be coincidence.
- Since scarcely, hardly, and barely already have negative force, it is redundant to use another negative in the same clause: there was scarcely any (not scarcely no) bread left; he had hardly had (not he hadn't hardly had) time to think
- Scarcely had they left before soldiers arrived armed with rifles.
- That is scarcely justification for your actions
- scarcely true
- The light is so dim we can scarcely see.
- This is scarcely the time to raise such questions.
- You could scarcely have chosen better.