Sentence examples for scarcely lifted from inspiring English sources

Mr. Torricelli has cast his relationship with Mr. Chang in two ways: as a friendship -- one in which he scarcely lifted an official finger for Mr. Chang -- and as a political relationship typical of those that legislators have with big contributors.

Let him explain to them how his incompetent administration scarcely lifted a finger to investigate hundreds of sex-crime cases Valley-wide -- many of them perpetrated against children; many with easily identifiable suspects -- to say nothing of numerous other crimes, including homicides, that Arpaio's investigators did virtually nothing to close.

When the exhausted French knights finally reached the English lines, they could "scarcely lift their weapons".

"They were so heavy," he wrote, "I could scarcely lift them off the ground".

You can scarcely lift a weight or pedal a bicycle at mine without gazing at your reflection in floor-to-ceiling glory.

After every 100 kilometres he was so pale and drained he could scarcely lift a hotel telephone to report on my behaviour.

Closer to home, at the British Library, I spent many weeks reading Humboldt's published books, some so huge and heavy that I could scarcely lift them on to the table.

Andy reads a passage aloud from today's letter from Frank Sullivan or his brother Stanley or a grain merchant in Ellsworth, and my mother laughs, scarcely lifting her eyes from the page.

The marathon caused controversy for 1904 (St Louis) when the winner, Thomas Hicks, crossed the finish line with "dull lustreless" eyes and "ashen" face – "he could scarcely lift his legs [and]…there was more or less hallucination".

I called the owner — Bob, a 69-year-old Vietnam veteran — who said that he had bought the truck as a project, but discovered that at his age, he could scarcely lift its heavy, 16.5-inch steel wheels off the ground to change a tire.

When Alex is a bit older, the boy who can scarcely lift a huge bouquet of roses for his mother at the end of her dance performance is reported to feel "appalled that so much effort should be in service to such a fleeting thing".