Sentence examples for i hardly recognised from inspiring English sources

But I hardly recognised this school upon my return.

Every time I tried to go up there and have a look, I was sidetracked by one or other of the children I hardly recognised grabbing me and wailing, "The boys tried to throw me off the bunk bed!" or "Dominic bit me!" Who was Dominic?

I hardly recognise my country.

A girl, with dark hair, hacked away at neck-length, framing her hollow face so covered in filth I hardly recognise her, stares back.

Affleck's film may depict an Iran I hardly recognise but it is a bitter reminder of how young revolutionaries and their leaders failed their country, putting Iran in a crisis that has had consequences for its people to this day.

It's been nearly two years -- and I hardly recognise the girl that I was before the corporate world whipped me into shape.

There had been moments in recent months when I had hardly recognised the desolate woman inhabiting my body and brain, but sooner or later the familiar self would always reappear, sporting her labels – historian, feminist, writer.

"Within a year of entering politics, I had the disoriented feeling of having been taken over by a doppelganger, a strange new persona I could hardly recognise when I looked at myself in the mirror … I had never been so well dressed in my life and had never felt so hollow".

Sometimes, I can hardly recognise myself; I am a new person, and I like myself a whole lot more.

From what came out at the Hutton inquiry I could hardly recognise the organisation I had so recently worked for.

I could hardly recognise it.