The word 'scarcely' is correct and can be used in written English. You can use the word 'scarcely' to describe a situation where something happens very little or rarely. Example Sentence: We scarcely hear anything from her since she moved away.
The West Side Story soundtrack was a festival of overdubs, with the marquee stars doing scarcely any of the singing.
There has scarcely been a better German goalkeeper since than Trautmann, who has died aged 89.
In a nation held to ransom by well-armed thugs, and lacking almost all infrastructure, these remarkable people – often motivated as much by a desire to keep their country alive as to make money – supply tiny desert settlements all over the nation with scarcely any losses.
The Movement for Change appears to have been treated as if it was an embarrassment: it was scarcely mentioned during the Labour campaign.
It was decades before the outside world learned anything of what went on in the warren of dilapidated huts surrounding the ugly Edwardian mansion in Buckinghamshire, but the bright young women recruited from secretarial colleges, the armed forces, or straight from school, scarcely knew any more.
The return of the man who was signed to take over from Cristiano Ronaldo has unsettled Nani, leading to a marked deterioration in form, but it has scarcely mattered such is the way Valencia has slipped back into the side so seamlessly.
The navy fired the odd Tomahawk cruise missile from its submarines at the north African state and seized a rare opportunity to fire the guns of its destroyers, but the army scarcely got a look in.
Thanks to Ludwig my first paper got accepted! The editor wrote me that my manuscript was well-written
Listya Utami K.
PhD Student in Biology, Bandung Institute of Technology, Indonesia