Sentence examples for hardly expects from inspiring English sources

The questioner is being polite, and hardly expects a disquisition on the status of your life.

And yet, Mr. Noto hardly expects Amazon's shares to take off.

One hardly expects, in the course of normal politics, to see Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt). thanking the billionaire brothers Charles and David Koch.

One hardly expects complete candor in discussions of the disputes that broke up the group, and they are papered over here.

Society hardly expects every child to become a doctor, yet it's necessary for everyone to have a basic understanding of the human body.

At first glance, for instance, one hardly expects the prim-seeming, pancake-faced figure cut by Mark Rylance's Olivia to give way so giddily – bawdily, even – to the dictates of the heart.

But we hardly expect more.

It was, after all, a call that he hardly expected.

"I hardly expected the book itself to be successful".

Putin can hardly expect his adversaries to accept this notion.

One would hardly expect otherwise in such a heterogeneous country.