Sentence examples for scarcely realized from inspiring English sources

When Ritchie was growing up, he scarcely realized that the local African-American hip-hop acts he loved, like Felix & Jarvis, weren't bound for national success.

Though they scarcely realized at the time, those early explorers had also begun to find clues to Antarctica's earlier, softer face.

It constitutes a huge learning task, yet is achieved so swiftly and automatically that its enormous complexity is scarcely realized (though it is an achievement the largest supercomputers cannot begin to match).

We scarcely realized that we were working for the army.

He's the kind of person to whom you confide things about yourself you scarcely realize.

"I can yet scarcely realize my situation," Adams wrote in his diary that night.

Bearded young New Yorkers can snap up brioche tarts at Proof Bakery in Atwater Village, visit gallery shows at Shepard Fairey's Subliminal Projects in Echo Park, or settle in over barrel-aged rye cocktails at Bar Stella in Silver Lake, and scarcely realize they are more than a stroll away from McCarren Park, except for the 70-degree sunshine tickling their cheeks in February.

He knows how to hit off a scene with a few rapid strokes; he is equally alert to the quiddity of a place or of a personality, and he imparts information so neatly that you scarcely realize how much he has packed in.

Just over two weeks out, save for NBC's promos, you'd scarcely realize we're on the verge of an Olympics by the looks of the marketing.

Scarcely realizing what she is doing, she betrays one of her Armenian girlfriends as a way of entering the in-crowd of her schoolmates.

She believed she did not fit well with the general atmosphere of the court, writing of herself: "I am wrapped up in the study of ancient stories ... living all the time in a poetical world of my own scarcely realizing the existence of other people ..