Sentence examples for hardly hold from inspiring English sources
"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.
Then I am handed the trophy, the huge heavy glass trophy that I can hardly hold.
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).
The counter-argument, that cuts remove an important discipline on managers, hardly holds true today, when all firms are counting the pennies.
Bill Charlap and Bill Mays faced each other squarely across the 92nd Street Y stage on Wednesday night, each stationed at a piano, taking turns but hardly holding back.
