Sentence examples for hardly lit from inspiring English sources

Fabio Capello's side hardly lit up the tournament with two draws and a defeat before tumbling out.

The result is this: Russia blinded by the light Fabio Capello's side hardly lit up the tournament with two draws and a defeat before tumbling out.

Gestede is on for Jordan Ayew who hardly lit the world up with his debut.

I'm 24 years old, applying to MBA programs and, while gainfully employed, I've hardly lit the world on fire.

THE ageing man, remote control in hand, staring at a television in a messy, ill-lit room, hardly looks threatening.

On the basis of the work published in her lifetime, hardly anybody outside a French lit department would have heard of her.

The detail is thoughtful and intricate in ways that hardly qualify this book as the stuff of chick lit.

Relatively few sources contain this word at all, so the Burmic reconstructions *g-lit H, *ku 1 and *laŋ 1 can hardly be documented elsewhere, other than the possible loan in Chinese noted above.

Of course, Lin is hardly the first novelist to flamboyantly raise a middle finger at lit-ra-choor — a punk gesture pulled off most successfully by male scenester writers making a deliberate choice to be poseurs.

In Leslie Travers's clean designs, lit by Bruno Poet, the action is updated to sharp, penthouse-capsule luxury: it hardly matters that in this open-plan existence no space has a particular purpose.

Even his 2011 film, the harsh, neon-lit Los Angeles film "Drive," starring Ryan Gosling as a Los Angeles getaway driver, was a chase film with hardly any car chases.