Sentence examples for scarcely knowing from inspiring English sources

They obsess, brood and hate; they are possessed by bizarre impulses; they wrestle with inchoate forces and often succumb, scarcely knowing the scope of their perversities.

Simultaneously, and scarcely knowing that they were doing so, they gave birth to a new literary form, which was to dominate a certain kind of relatively highbrow reader's bookshelves for the next decade and a half.

His mother, too, asked him questions to which she seemed scarcely interested in knowing the answers.

Anyone who grew up knowing nothing but the Cold War could scarcely imagine that the world wasn't eternally locked in permafrost.

The whole photograph adds up to a riveting depiction of human weakness: a meagre spirit, scarcely believing its luck, clutching at its unexpected chance to play the part of the strong, and knowing that for once it will not be found out, for all the other hopefuls will be sharing the stage.

Not knowing.

Not knowing is worse than knowing.

It's even better knowing that you have a dish of chili or winter-warming stew stashed away in the refrigerator for a night when you scarcely have the energy to boil water.

Is knowing important?

There were knowing chuckles.

Others exchange knowing glances.