Sentence examples for scarcely familiar from inspiring English sources

Obama's name was at that time scarcely familiar to many African-Americans.

I loved this art of return, of the loop, the spiral, that reminds one equally of the practice of series in contemporary painting or of the taste for questioning in a Talmud with which, to my knowledge, he was scarcely familiar.

I sometimes let slip that I'm a professor or that I'm scarcely even familiar with the rules of football, minor biographical facts that stand in for a broader, unspoken statement of reassurance: there is no danger here.

But who is Noon, scarcely a familiar travel-writing byline?

It is so familiar it is scarcely noticed.

Second, those who did practice plural marriage scarcely exhibited the lascivious behavior made familiar in anti-Mormon literature.

Scarcely a man can be found familiar with the use of a gun; few have any skill or experience in horsemanship, and the whole breed are as nervously fearful of gunpowder and bloodshed as women or negroes.

These pieces are also the servant of form but one so familiar by now that we scarcely notice it.

The subject — the propagandistic "Degenerate Art" exhibition, which presented modernist works for popular vilification — is familiar, and it ranks as scarcely a footnote in the annals of Third Reich infamy.

That deficit – the country's and not the government's – is of course the one that really matters; yet it is now so much part of the familiar economic landscape that it scarcely warrants a raised eyebrow.

Scarcely a scene goes by without a familiar face in a minor role: Taraji P. Henson, Terrence Howard, Bill Paxton, Shea Whigham, Mike Epps, Jonathan Banks and others.