Sentence examples for scarcely finished from inspiring English sources

He moved into 451 in 1883, when the house was scarcely finished & the others scarcely begun.

Jean Dujardin had scarcely finished exulting over his best actor Oscar before François Hollande, Mr. Sarkozy's Socialist challenger for the presidency, issued a congratulatory statement that pointedly praised the French system of lavishing millions on subsidizing movies.

Sly incidental jokes about Pat's place in the mediascape amuse, but The Lego Movie set the bar high for such knowing brand optimisation: Disa can't really satirise society's homogenised speed-freakery when his songs feature Ronan Keating and his animation looks scarcely finished.

But he has scarcely finished announcing his breakthrough before he lapses back into vintage Reaganism, urging his readers to "get mad again about the perversities and inefficiencies inflicted by heavy-handed government — and to take up the cause of those victimized and exploited by government-mandated waste".

Carroll's gleeful celebrations in front of a particularly vocal section of the home support had scarcely finished when Carl Jenkinson produced a superb last-ditch sliding block to deny Wayne Routledge at the other end and ensure the lead lasted until the break.

Scarcely had I finished my oatmeal when Anthony said I should come with him.

Scarcely have we finished with Hector Berlioz and Hugo Wolf, honored in 2003, than it is time to start looking at Antonin Dvorak, who died in 1904.

I no longer had a stake in Chuck Schaeffer's comeback ride and scarcely noticed when he finished.

The current format serves as a reminder of what Moss accomplished: What he finished in scarcely more than 10 hours now takes the better parts of four grueling days behind the wheel of relatively primitive motor cars.

Scarcely had the press finished chewing on the latest evidence of fund-raising zeal by Harold M. Ickes, the former deputy chief of staff, when the overeager hospitality of the President himself was revealed in a memo that turned the Lincoln Bedroom into a B. and B. View Article By Jia Tolentino By David Remnick By Jelani Cobb By Sam Knight.

Scarcely had the press finished chewing on the latest evidence of fund-raising zeal by Harold M. Ickes, the former deputy chief of staff, when the overeager hospitality of the President himself was revealed in a memo that turned the Lincoln Bedroom into a B. and B. View Article By Rivka Galchen By Malcolm Gladwell By Ceridwen Dovey By David Remnick.