Sentence examples for if scarcely from inspiring English sources

Well, that is good and true, if scarcely news.

Harris shook his head as if scarcely he could believe what he had just done.

Apple may be insulated by its operating system and apparently impregnable brand, although it has lately been selling cheaper (if scarcely cheap) iPhones.

If scarcely anyone is taking any interest in the general election it's not just because the result is seen as largely irrelevant: it's the markets that rule.

The story opens on the eve of Ryno's wedding to a delectable moneyed aristocrat, Hermangarde (Roxane Mesquida, suitably decorative if scarcely virginal).

With the decline of burlesque theaters in the postwar years, a wave of more respectable if scarcely less naked establishments rushed in to take their place.

It is as if Violetta scarcely exists at all.

He tells players they are great even if he scarcely believes it himself.

But it is a strangely scattergun approach of commissioning, and one in which the project often seems to have been given to the practice's B-team, as if they scarcely believed it would ever be built.

They had just got back home from the visit and had come straight down to the beach, still reciting the tale as if they scarcely believed it had happened.

They did a pretty good job of that in the first half, even if they scarcely emerged as an attacking force themselves.