Sentence examples for scarcely above from inspiring English sources

His speed is well down, scarcely above 80mph.

Though she was scarcely above showing off her brilliant technique, her musical embellishments had to stand the test of dramatic expressivity.

Another worry here is that most of the construction is on coastal salt flats that are scarcely above sea level, and could be vulnerable if climate change leads to increases in sea level or typhoons with large storm surges.

She has remarkable breath control, which results in legato passages that are as smooth as they are imperceptible and a pianissimo that is scarcely above a whisper yet carries to every corner of the house.

In the 1996 presidential election, for example, voter turnout scarcely hovered above 50 percent in both states.

And they scarcely show above the edge of the flat roof.

Trump, who tolerated him at first, eventually turned on Bush in a tart and petty exchange which scarcely rose above the level of playground taunts about who was toughest.

The site is called Pushcart NYC, and its authors explain their mission this way: "The pushcart is one of the symbols of the city, and yet information about them is maddeningly partial, scarcely rising above the level of rumor".

"We have seen so much in Juárez and it has been so terrible, that almost nothing about killing shocks us any more," said Erika, at the back of a No 10, her voice scarcely audible above the mariachis on the radio.

And the beach I keep going back to is Covehithe, which meets scarcely any of the above requirements but which I've grown so fond of that I hesitate to share its secrets.

The formation of EPS by Archaea is scarcely reported for thermophiles (above 60°C) (Auernik et al. 2008) and also not for moderate thermophiles (45°C) (Becker et al. 2011; Zeng et al. 2011).