Sentence examples for scarcely move from inspiring English sources

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A quadriplegic who could scarcely move his head drowned in a bathtub after being left alone with the water running.

By the end of the decade, Delhiites could "scarcely move in the city on weekend evenings for the traffic jams of fervent bar-goers".

India's bureaucracy remains stifling, and the potholes and traffic on the country's roads are so bad that vehicles scarcely move faster than walking speed in some areas; in other areas, sometime gruesome crashes are a regular occurrence.

Carl Van Vechter, one of the earliest modern dance critics and author of the 1926 novel "Nigger Heaven" -- a title nobody would use today -- described the scene in a taxi-dance hall: "Sometimes a... couple would scarcely move from one spot.

From relentlessly grim fare such as zombie saga The Walking Dead and post-Rapture drama The Leftovers, to more knockabout stuff like ITV2's Cockroaches (think The Road, but with the added misery of having to spend the end of days with Jack Whitehall) and Fox's forthcoming Will Forte comedy The Last Man On Earth, you can scarcely move for charcoal-grey skies and burning piles of rubbish.

The youth does not know what the Grail is, but remarks that as they walk he seems to scarcely move, yet feels as if he is traveling far.

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His lips scarcely moved.

Some scarcely moved.

Some have scarcely moved; a few have sunk.

He scarcely moves and he doesn't talk much.

Yet despite these labors, her feet scarcely moved forward.

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