Sentence examples for hardly picked from inspiring English sources

This time things were different: exports hardly picked up at all and the current account actually got worse, not better.Britain is unusually welcoming of foreign investment.

He cheerfully acknowledged that he had hardly picked up a bat since late March, when West Indies was eliminated from the World Cup.

himself, he can hardly pick a moderate businesswoman like Meg Whitman or Carly Fiorina.

A couple of unpretentious billionaires could hardly pick a more familiarly, innocuously, authentically American place to have lunch.

But now, after wars, sanctions, children dying, unbelievable rates of cancer and disease, I am so angry I can hardly pick up my pen.

Omaha and Indianapolis, for instance, can hardly pick themselves up and alight on the shores of an inland sea the size of Lake Michigan.

The park service could hardly pick favorites — opening the memorial for the Second World War but not for the Vietnam War, opening Yellowstone but not Yosemite — and it shouldn't be asked to.

As the world's largest food company, with more than $100 billion in sales in 2008, the Switzerland-based Nestlé is hardly picking on someone its own size when it challenges CytoSport, which has about $200 million in annual revenue, according to a spokesperson.

Or was it just that this year, gossip coverage has become so widespread — you could hardly pick up a magazine or newspaper, turn on a television or read a blog without encountering another tale of a celebrity who'd gone off the rails — that it made routine bad behavior seem even worse?

One can hardly pick up a popular science magazine or even a daily newspaper these days without reading about an imminent nanorevolution in science and technology.

Consumers would hardly pick the service that ate up a big piece of their data allowance, even if it was better.