Sentence examples for rarely around from inspiring English sources

One, Clayton Mack, 53, said Mr. Thornton was rarely around because he was usually working.

Daisy's aunt (Anna Chancellor) is a jet-setting diplomat who is rarely around, so the youngsters' summer turns into an unsupervised, sun-dappled, romantic idyll.

Players, he laments, are still vulnerable to the punitive effects of the crisis – late payments in particular – and are rarely around long enough to really want to make a difference.

Born Jamesetta Hawkins in Los Angeles to a mother who was rarely around and a father she never knew — later in life, she speculated that it might have been the pool player Minnesota Fats — James had a Dickensian childhood, shuttled from caregiver to caregiver, treated rough, forced to grow up fast.

By autumn they're rarely around because many will have been eaten by the females, which use their partner's proteins to grow their eggs.

Not only was his father rarely around, but when he was around he was distant and critical.

But these "next big things" rarely hang around longer than it takes to utter the phrase.

Los Pumas, good for the odd shock, rarely pushed around, mostly bravely beaten.

Glib soundbites rarely stick around for long, and one day's headline is the next's fish and chip paper.

Off-the-wall accessories like the Eee Stick rarely stick around anyway.

To Dos will always be there but young people rarely stick around after an adult has ignored or dismissed them.