Sentence examples for scarcely read from inspiring English sources

She is scarcely read in America, despite her resurrection by the contemporary women's movement.

About 200,000 adults in Suffolk County can scarcely read or write English at all.

He could scarcely read or write when he graduated from Central high school in 1960, and ranked 376th in the graduation class of 391.

"As it is my design to make those that can scarcely read understand," he explained, "I shall therefore avoid every literary ornament and put it in language as plain as the alphabet".

I can scarcely read letters from Ukip harrumphing about defacements without wondering whether the jokers in question went wittily surreal or just did something classic and elegant, like Ushit.

"Off the road on the left," she wrote, "is the brown-with-white-trim modern public school, with its well-kept yards and playgrounds, which Howard Miller always looks after, though he can scarcely read and write".

In context, that answer is so plausible that it scarcely reads like the curt autobiographical nod it is.

We all do it sometimes -- glancing at headlines and scarcely reading the stories -- one of the reasons why, all too often, what we think we know actually isn't so.

Some of the most inspired words, some of the most profound thoughts in literature fall from her lips; in real life she could hardly read, could scarcely spell, and was the property of her husband".

A member of the class of 1833 remembered it as containing "old sermons and some history, scarcely ever read".

Yet I can scarcely recall reading a book which gives a richer, more comprehensive – and, ultimately, more deeply moving – account of the human experience, or at least those parts of it that are central for so many of us.