Sentence examples for scarcely probable from inspiring English sources

The alternative was that "the species has been utterly extirpated since his time, which is scarcely probable".

Farther east he established some sort of control over the nomadic tribes of the Syrian Desert as far as the Euphrates River, though it is scarcely probable that Israelite domination was that effective.

When we were about to sign the above-mentioned articles, which were to be binding upon us, our heirs, etc., for fifty years, Mr. Brockden, the scrivener, said to us, "You are young men, but it is scarcely probable that any of you will live to see the expiration of the term fix'd in the instrument".

Sixteen percent of the total number of patients were considered recruitment failures, because all of the disease groups dropped out in this recruitment period of the study; therefore, it is scarcely probable that this fact affects the final results.

It was given this status on 12 May 1970, and has been listed because it is "a good, scarcely altered simple Medieval church which retains a great deal of the Medieval fabric, including decorate fragments of probable 12th century date, and a fine later Medieval roof".

A probable?

Possible, but not probable.

But it seems probable.