Sentence examples for live scarcely from inspiring English sources

His health was now visibly failing; he never spoke in the House of Lords, and he accepted that he would live scarcely long enough to complete the reign of William III in his History.

Aged 44 and single - she once told the Voice she was a sucker for men's sob stories, and was determined not to get hooked by them - Randall lives scarcely a mile from where she grew up in south London.

Instead, they have preferred to speak to us of a God consisting of a series of sweeping idealizations — idealizations whose relation to the world in which we actually live is scarcely imaginable.

In short, the living arrangements of canons were to be scarcely distinguishable from those of monks.

Disney is set on submitting its famous features to this brand of reboot (we have already had "The Jungle Book," and "Dumbo" awaits), but, given the congestion of special effects involved, the action is scarcely live.

This hierarchy of lives could scarcely be said to rehabilitate the poet.

In person, he scarcely lives up to the actor who earns his wages.

A living wage bill scarcely pulls a worker out of poverty, much less into working-class prosperity.

SINCE Britain was declared free of foot-and-mouth disease six months ago, the town of Settle in the Yorkshire Dales has scarcely lived up to its name.

Others said that two decades after Ukraine became independent, following the collapse of the Soviet Union, living standards had scarcely improved, with many surviving on pathetically low wages.

Of course, it's a no-brainer that a neighbouring shop that smells sweet is going to be more attractive than a kebab house, and the most ardent habitué of Chicken Cottage would scarcely choose to live next to one.