Sentence examples for scarcely catch from inspiring English sources

It was growing against a bit of trellis she'd put up to defend it from the wind, a shrubby sort of rose, with deep pink flowers, whose scent you could scarcely catch before it was snatched away on the gale.

The chorus line, the racecourse, the political rally, the bloodthirsty mob tearing after the villain and the team of synchronised swimmers in Cecil B de Mille formations: the images flash up so fast you can scarcely catch hold of them, at first.

Reisman, 30, could scarcely catch her breath.

At which point England would emerge battered, bruised and, it always seemed, 3-0 down for the final two Tests at Kensington Oval in Barbados and the wonderful Recreation Ground in Antigua, having scarcely caught a glimpse of the Caribbean for a month or more.

Jonathan Trott could have scarcely felt more claustrophobic than when he walked out for his first bat of the series, four men crouching around him and the spinners barely pausing to catch their breath between deliveries.

Partly because I've rehearsed everything so thoroughly that scarcely an unchecked memory can slip through or catch me off guard, and partly because I've always suspected there was more sentiment than feeling in my errands to 110th Street.

Clara and the baby downstairs in 2-S (her name is Quinn, I've learned) are scarcely aware of irony or bad news yet, but they'll catch up and be O.K. with it very soon.

Conventional law enforcement rarely catches them and scarcely deters them.

Hampshire, second and 32 points to the good of Surrey, look scarcely less likely to be caught for the other promotion slot having smashed hapless Leicestershire all round the Ageas Bowl.

Sometimes the catch scarcely replaces the energy I've used.

One hundred and twenty years later, all that remains are social gradations so subtle that half the people caught up in them would scarcely know they were there.