Sentence examples for hardly closed from inspiring English sources

Had hardly closed door behind him, when Mrs. Pratt said, "Nothing today.

ANNE HUTCHINSON, the first female defendant in the colonies, was banished from Boston for heresy in 1638, but her case is hardly closed.

As if to prove he is right, he has hardly closed his mouth when young Orlando comes on bearing the frail body of a man approaching the seventh and last age of human life.

"The Gods are just," says Edgar in King Lear, but he has hardly closed his mouth before the old king comes on bearing the hanged body of his beloved, virtuous daughter Cordelia, most unjustly murdered.

The model closes her eyes, but her eyebrows are raised -- her eyes are hardly closed, they will open any minute if she ceases to trust.

This is true, but hardly closes the issue.

The new findings hardly close the book on how memories are formed and consolidated during sleep.

The president's advisers, meanwhile, say they are hardly closing up the money shop.

Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton's re-election race may be over, but she is hardly closing up her campaign shop or worrying about deep debts.

But that will hardly close the gap – up to £1,690 a year per family – that the Resolution Foundation calculates would be left by cutting child tax credits to 2003 levels (one option).

The report found while things are going well in some areas, such as early childhood education, in others, such as reading, writing and numeracy and life expectancy, the gap is hardly closing.