Sentence examples for scarcely over from inspiring English sources

One election is scarcely over when it all starts again.

When the exhibition was planned the war was scarcely over.

Yet with a million troops still poised on either side of the border and the two countries as far apart as ever in their views on Kashmir, the crisis is scarcely over.

Last season's Oscar race was scarcely over when a big, screaming scandal kicked off the current one, thanks to Nate Parker, the writer, director, and star of " Read more on the nominees of the 2017 Academy Awards.

The greatest scamp had a Raphael face, with a profusion of blonde hair; Oakhurst, a gambler, had the melancholy air and intellectual abstraction of a Hamlet; the coolest and most courageous man was scarcely over five feet in height, with a soft voice and an embarrassed, timid manner.

From a lectern he could scarcely see over, he gave a very brief address — a stock commencement speech that he had found on the Internet, he said — and then ran through the auditorium playing tag with his nieces and nephews.

"I can never forget," he wrote to Rosecrans eight months later, "that you gave us a hard-earned victory, which, had there been a defeat instead, the nation could scarcely have lived over".

Sales were scarcely ticking over.

But that was when the Persian threat had scarcely appeared over the horizon.

At one point, Magriel, who scarcely hesitated over his moves, said, "I'll make a run for it".

He also concluded a treaty with the Byzantines in 605 that established permanent borders with the exarchate, which scarcely changed over the next century (the only major exception being the Lombard conquest of the Ligurian coast in the early 640s).