Sentence examples for scarcely play from inspiring English sources

His conviction, for instance, that "the peasants alone are revolutionary, for they have nothing to lose and everything to gain," was a fantasy; they could scarcely play such a role since French troops had herded them en masse into relocation centers.

Still, "Joe" was scarcely played out.

They were scarcely plays at all.

Until the jitters set in, he scarcely played and missed.

Rivers had Tracy McGrady and the hobbled Grant Hill, who scarcely played for the Magic.

Sam Hill, the industrious Exeter centre, could potentially offer cover but he has scarcely played lately because of ankle and hamstring trouble.

He talked of trusting in great players who had won things, but Thierry Henry, his captain, has become peripheral at Barcelona; William Gallas, his main defender, has scarcely played since the beginning of the year because of calf injury; Patrick Vieira is 33 and a shell of the midfield warrior he was.

While Tendulkar was serene in disposition, scarcely played at anything approaching controversy outside his off stump and was chiefly eye-catching only with bat in hand, Kohli is always intense, is obsessive in his fitness, always fields like a man possessed and is very often on the wind-up too.

"Stewart Walters began the fightback, he scarcely played a false shot and deserved a hundred but there was also good support from the other batsmen which is essential.

"You have to go back to 1945," says Rosen. "When you consider the state of school buildings in 1945, and not simply because so many had been bombed, they were slum schools in slum areas with scarcely any play space.

Over a decades-long career, he'd scarcely ever play another groove again.