Sentence examples for scarcely met from inspiring English sources
The motive for her apparent self-sabotage was revealed two months later, when she stunned her family and friends by announcing her marriage to a man they had scarcely met, Aziz Eloui Bey, an Egyptian railroad magnate in his forties.
I had scarcely met Stephen, and then one Saturday I met some old friends for coffee and they were saying, 'Gosh it's terrible about Stephen, isn't it?' They told me that he had been in St Bartholomew's hospital in London having horrible tests and then had been diagnosed with an atypical form of a rare disease – motor neurone disease.
So there is a chance of avoiding the pitfalls of some of the prince's predecessors: an arranged marriage to a dull princess he has scarcely met, or, like his father, to a much younger, aristocratic bride who has no interest in his interests.
The quiet joke of the film is that you could scarcely meet two less revolutionary souls.
He was so ill last year, and in the early months of this year, that he could scarcely meet anybody at all.
Sooner or later Ajax will have to give McClaren some thought, especially since their only alternative as it stands is to turn to their technical manager, Danny Blind, whose first spell as Ajax manager was a flop, and who would scarcely meet the job description.
That the law and reality scarcely meet may be entertaining but for investors, large and small, it can be devastating.
His activities of releasing statements on international affairs and writing letters of sympathy to prominent figures he may scarcely have met are no substitute for governing this city.
She and Narendra Modi married, by arrangement, when they were teenagers, but he left soon afterwards and they have neither divorced nor lived together since, and scarcely even met.
Whole dysfunctional families could live in one of these new homes and scarcely ever meet each other.
Mamaroneck appears to harbor very few ideologues, for I met scarcely anybody who objected to standardized tests per se.
