Sentence examples for scarcely dry from inspiring English sources

The ink was scarcely dry by the time Senator John Edwards, the Democrat from North Carolina who is thinking of running for president, issued a statement later today calling for corporate executives to disclose their pay voluntarily.

Hitler's diaries were enormously potent too because they were in the Führer's own fair hand – until it turned out that it was a forger's fair hand and the ink was scarcely dry.

Sometimes resistance develops so rapidly that the ink is scarcely dry on a report hailing successful control of species by means of some specific chemical before an amended report has to be issued.

"If it is unlawful to try to keep this unique and valuable collection together, I ask: since when?" inquired Frank Dobson, the Coram Foundation's MP. "Was it unlawful in the 1740s to keep the paintings when Hogarth's brush was scarcely dry?

The ink on the Michigan brief was scarcely dry when an article appeared in The Washington Post based on a news leak asserting that Ms. Rice had played a central role in persuading the president to attack race-sensitive admissions policies at the University of Michigan.

But with the ink scarcely dry on Bluhdorn's obituaries, his successors put a relatively small consulting job up for bids.

But the mortar of the new museum had scarcely dried when Darwin's Origin was published.

At its beginning, Champagne scarcely resembled the dry, fine-fizzed champers we know today.

Yet even without the completion of this remarkable tale of human endurance, there would scarcely have been a dry eye in the house at Cape Canaveral tomorrow night.

Exploitation of forest produce can continue in the rainy season, for there is scarcely a month when there are not enough dry days to permit sufficient transport to cope with a fairly regular production despite the effect of the climate.

Hoffman has gone on to have a distinguished career as a poet, but it scarcely matters: Lowell's combustible triple adjectives (minute, intelligent, dry) are the road flares that mark Hoffman's limits.