Sentence examples for hardly held from inspiring English sources

She said her family's tank hardly held any water.

"The United States," he argues, "was hardly held back by these illicit additions to the money supply".

During the boom years of the 1980s that hardly held back larger companies, defined as those with capital of over ¥100m ($1m).

For years, surgeons thought weight-loss operations worked because they made the stomach so small that it hardly held any food.

Bits and pieces are breaking away under the strain, hardly held back by a conference and prime ministerial speech that were much better than expected.

But sounding good-mannered and a little timid has hardly held Clean Bandit back commercially, and it's unlikely to halt the progress of Years & Years either.

"I can hardly hold back the tears," he said.

"I could hardly hold a pencil," he said.

"Her arthritis was so bad she could hardly hold a pen, let alone a needle".

Yet in the art of deception he can hardly hold a candle to Stalin.

______________ could hardly hold himself on the chair; he wanted to leave immediately.