Sentence examples for scarcely bear from inspiring English sources

He could scarcely bear to consider all that had stirred him on Saturday.

UPPER WEST SIDE/PROSPECT HEIGHTS THE charms of the Upper West Side are so well known they scarcely bear repeating.

In this respect, though the Russians can scarcely bear to admit it even to themselves, Mr Basaev may actually rank as an ally.

The trouble is that his skills are now applied to a tale that can scarcely bear the pressure of his sophistication.

The latter's First Symphony is "ugly and pretentious"; his Second, "dull, ugly, gauch" [sic]; his Trio in A Minor, "foul – I can scarcely bear to play it".

She gave me a couple of examples – just two of the many hundreds of which she had recent experience – and I could scarcely bear to hear them.

A serious attack on the kingdom's oil infrastructure scarcely bears thinking about.

The story -- repeated with small variations throughout the corpus of 18th- and early-19th-century comic opera -- scarcely bears repeating, but briefly here it is: A shipwreck on Algerian shores.

Naturally, Irish players complained, but this scarcely bore entry next to Thierry Henry's handball in the list of decisions awarded to supposedly bigger countries; it is hard, in any case, to see how Croatia would fit into that pattern.

This is not happening to the cast and crew of Casualty, because a world without Casualty would be only marginally different from this one – whereas for many of us, a universe without the Doctor scarcely bears thinking about.

South Korea is ill-prepared, psychologically, politically and economically, for the unification presumed to follow the eventual collapse of the north.The cost of such a collapse scarcely bears thinking about and South Koreans for the most part are trying their best not to do so.