Sentence examples for scarce believe from inspiring English sources
"scarce believe" is a correct and usable phrase in written English
It is often used in combination with the verb "to find," as in "hard to scarce believe" or "difficult to scarce believe," to convey a sense of disbelief or incredulity. Example: She found it hard to scarce believe that her best friend would betray her trust like that.
You sense they can scarce believe their luck at the solution Wasps have arrived at.
Yet it beguiles from the opening stanza: She let her golden ball fall down the well And begged a cold frog to retrieve it; For which she kissed his ugly, gaping mouth — Indeed he could scarce believe it.
Ram Gopal Varma, filmmaker, wrote on Twitter: "Crowds at [Balasahebs'] remind me of a line from Attenborough's Gandhi: 'Generations to come will scarce believe that a man such as this ever walked this earth.' "Many of the dialogues from both Sarkar and Sarkar Raj are actually Balasaheb's lines which I copied from what he said!
But of the new brotherhood that grew presently among men, of the saving of laws and books and machines, of the strange change that had come over Iceland and Greenland the shores of Baffin's Bay, so that the sailors there presently found them green and gracious, and could scarce believe their eyes, this story does not tell.
Willis wrote about the pineal gland that "we can scarce believe this to be the seat of the Soul, or its chief Faculties to arise from it; because Animals, which seem to be almost quite destitute of Imagination, Memory, and other superior Powers of the Soul, have this Glandula or Kernel large and fair enough" (Willis 1664, ch. 14, as translated in Willis 1681).
Again he took some clay and plastered it over the fibers, putting on more and more till I could plainly see the enlargement, working away with strange, silent intentness for fully fifteen minutes, while I watched and wondered, scarce believing my eyes.
But many child welfare advocates and officials in government and law enforcement say that while the data is scarce, they believe that the problem of prostituted children has grown, especially as the Internet has made finding clients easier.
Those figures do not include sales in Microsoft's own stores, which were the only place to buy a Surface tablet during that period, but because the stores are scarce, analysts believe it is unlikely they made a big difference.
All have merit, but with money tight and resources scarce, we believe companies can get excellent security mileage focusing on Web-based threats.
Nevertheless, as data about prognostic factors are scarce, we believe our results and particularly the impact of preoperative factors such as age, and values of C reactive protein and creatinine add to the knowledge of this disease.
Fashion items are also subject to scarcity effects: products perceived as scarce are believed to be more valuable (Lynn 1991).
