Sentence examples for hardly lifted from inspiring English sources
The phrase "hardly lifted" is correct and usable in written English
You can use it to express that something was moved only slightly or that someone was only slightly successful in achieving something. For example: "I was so tired I could hardly lift my arm."
The Community Shield has hardly lifted the mood.
"Aryan Warsaw hardly lifted a finger to help" the Jews, she wrote in her memoir.
As he answered questions, he hardly lifted his gaze from his transcript binder, and never looked directly at Bout.
When the two met on that emotional night at the Garden, a venue adored by Cotto's Puerto Rican fans, there was savage revenge and it was the turn of Margarito to stagger, dazed, blinded and shamed, all over the ring; the referee and the Mexican's corner all seemed to be in on the redemption ride and hardly lifted a finger to save Margarito from the fists of Cotto.
He hardly lifted his head as I approached, no longer fazed by the constant traffic of people donating and taking food.
All that effort seems to have gone to waste because the Obama administration has hardly lifted a finger on behalf of the 30,000 workers who are fired every year for trying to join a union.
A beam I couldn't hardly lift.
The forward lean, the crowded words, the way the pen hardly lifts at alll.
He gave no specifics about cuts, but his statement will hardly lift morale at the British papers.
We had to wear about 80 layers of clothes; I could hardly lift my arms from the weight of them.
I have days when I can do two laps and some days when I can hardly lift them at all.
