Sentence examples for can hardly know from inspiring English sources
You can hardly know what is genuine".
But one can hardly know that in advance; it depends on what the nature of law actually is.
"Don't you think," Mr. Valentine asks Gloria, "it horrible that a man and a woman can hardly know one another without being supposed to have designs of that [marriage] kind?
They can hardly know where to start when deciding whether the relevant literature is valid and of the highest quality.
In Silicon Valley jumping into bed for financial gain with a rich man you hardly know can be blissful.
On the surface, this premise echoes the familiar observation that even two people who live together intimately can end up feeling they hardly know each other.
(I can hear Petipa saying: "Gee, Carabosse, I hardly know ya'".).
"She went straight for the placid Mr Maudling, who can hardly have known what hit him.
As it happens a candidate moth had been catalogued from the Congo region of Africa in the 1830s (Xanthopan morganii), but that is some distance from Madagascar and Darwin can hardly have known about it at the time.
When the American wildcard Alison Riske shocked even herself by beating Petra Kvitova 6-3, 6-0 on day six to go through to the fourth round of the US Open, she can hardly have known the former Wimbledon champion was weighed down by a debilitating fever.
No doubt she was sending herself up (Gonzalez-Foerster is also French), but she can hardly have known just how many of her colleagues would be prefigured in this fictional artist wandering through the off-season Giardini fretting over her relationship with the Biennale.
