Sentence examples for Hardly sad from inspiring English sources
The man had been in his mid-sixties, and his death seemed to Meriel and Pierre only a little surprising and hardly sad.
"Hardly a sad night but more of a celebration of the career of one of music's true living legends," said the New York Post.
I hardly believe the sad news for I was sure she was enchanted and would live forever".
"A little sad, but hardly subversive," he said.
The departure of Ancil Barclay and Chris Boothman from the board of Notting Hill carnival is sad but hardly surprising (Report, 1 October).
1976 - The death of Chairman Mao Power vacuum after Mao's death "The Chinese people, sad but hardly surprised, began to consider their future last night without their country's great helmsman".
She was in severe pain and could hardly speak but her sad eyes said it all.
With 636 murders in New York City during the year of 1964, another spilled life was sad, but hardly much of a public affair.
Weigel is hardly alone in making this sad confession.
Sad boys are hardly a new idea in pop music, but they have been more unusual in hip-hop and R. & B. than in, say, indie rock — at least until figures like Ocean and Drake claimed a space in which to be unremittingly, unapologetically melancholic.
