Sentence examples for hardly tall from inspiring English sources

He was born last year, at the Houston Zoo, and stood six feet two inches tall — average for a newborn giraffe, but hardly tall enough to reach the shoulders of his namesake, the skyscraping Chinese former basketball star.

"Hardly taller than me, and looked up to by everybody," Wood said.

He was hardly taller than I was, and he was thin and old, mostly bald, with wrinkles in his forehead when he smiled.

"I'm just happy to have them back". Mrs. Hoyte, who is hardly taller than some of her tallest dolls, is a fixture in the teacup-size world of doll collecting.

He was hardly any taller than she was.

Its towers of granite and limestone, rising 272 feet above the East River, are hardly the tallest things in New York City anymore.

That was hardly the tallest in New York -- the 29-story Park Row Building, 391 feet high, was built in 1899 at Ann Street.

Docherty is hardly the tallest player in the Accies side, but the midfielder - whose goal kept the club in the Premiership last season - was able to steer a header from six yards into the roof of the net.

Ready to follow the Nick Bollettieri formula for success on practice courts reserved for the talented likes of Andre Agassi and Tommy Haas, the academy stars hardly noticed the tall Moroccan with lug-nut knees who had stuffed the ball machines so they could fine-tune their greatness.

The ISIS is hardly 10 feet tall.

I've seen the photos that appear to indicate he's hardly two inches taller than President Barack Obama, whom Jackson measured at 6-foot-1.