Sentence examples for bore scant from inspiring English sources

These articles were undoubtedly colorful but they bore scant relation to the truth.

The setting at Racquet Club of the South, primarily a tennis training facility, bore scant resemblance to Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in Flushing Meadows.

Dunsany's settings tended to be imaginary, the bejewelled domains of scimitar-wielding warriors, kings, beggars, thieves, and prophets answering to pagan pantheons that bore scant resemblance to the Celtic legends that Yeats loved.

24), efficiently dispatched, served mainly as preface to Mr. Kenyon's "Death of Webern," a heady mix of film-noir strings and sultry rhythm vamp that bore scant resemblance to its ostensible namesake.

B1 SPORTSMONDAY D1-9 Elder Sister Wins Sibling Match The atmosphere in the all-Williams tennis match bore scant resemblance to the floodlit, electrically charged ambiance in their United States Open night finals past.

The Submerging Boks would have been a more appropriate name given the weather which bore scant resemblance to the cloudless blue skies in Pretoria awaiting the Lions this weekend.

I believe this picture bears scant resemblance either to Congress' design or to our own precedents.

That scheme bears scant resemblance to the liberal democracy under which he was elected.

At first glance, these pictures bear scant relation to Penn's more acceptable obsessions.

The band onstage tonight bear scant resemblance to the four-piece of 2008-9.

But although it is still often cited, his inspiring vision bears scant resemblance to the universities of today.