Sentence examples for but hardly something from inspiring English sources

It is a smart dish, but hardly something I was planning to cook at home.

Mostly, in my experience, one finds that there's a guided tour of highlights of the collection - no doubt well enough done, but hardly something to stretch the applications of information technology.

This fluent, bright-toned reading could, nevertheless, have done with keener focus and precision of ensemble: the result was an amiable opener, but hardly something to make an audience sit up and listen.

Fine for baptizing suburban infants and small fishing vessels, but hardly something special in the air.

Oh sure, I had a laptop at the time, but it was hardly something that could be considered "portable" in anything but the most liberal interpretation of that word.

"But it's hardly something I want on my gravestone".

But it's hardly something to cheer about.

Now, appealing to authority may often be effective with students, but it is hardly something we wish to encourage!

Public accountability is a laudable goal, but it's hardly something you expect from the secret rulers of the universe.

On a more serious note, Russia, of course, has a problem with poverty and marginalisation (although much less so that a decade and a half ago, but that's hardly something a foreign donation can fix.

(A piece of plywood can be used as a ramp, but that's hardly something you'll always have handy).