Sentence examples for scarcely set from inspiring English sources

Unlike Vermeer, who scarcely set foot beyond Delft, Sweerts saw a lot of the world.

The master of the house scarcely set foot beyond the green baize door; the mistress only to supervise.

Although he was promoted only two weeks before he took over and has no political experience, he scarcely set a foot wrong during the very public diplomatic encounters at the funeral.In this section Is it crime or culture?

He showed astonishing skill in judging the mood of the democratic leaders and exploiting their weaknesses in spite of the fact that he had scarcely set foot outside Austria and Germany and spoke no foreign language.

Some ninety-five per cent of criminal cases in the U.S. are decided by plea bargains — the risk of being convicted of a more serious offense and getting a much longer sentence is a formidable incentive — and so prosecutors can determine another man's crime and punishment while scarcely setting foot in a courtroom.

A high point in every Russian insomniac's diary, St Petersburg's White Nights festival in July takes advantage of the long days when the sun scarcely sets on the city.

In the same essay cited above, Freud writes that "psychoanalysis does not try to describe what a woman is that would be a task it could scarcely perform but sets about enquiring how she comes into being, how a woman develops out of a child with a bisexual disposition" (Freud 1968 [1933], 116).

In the end, though, it did not affect her process; she scarcely visited the set.

"Scarcely had we set foot on land when the infamous Du Camp experienced an erection at the sight of a negress drawing water from a fountain.

I can scarcely wait to set up my display case, full of miniature traffic cones, miniature yellow construction vehicles and miniature overhead signs that light up with the words "Long Delays Ahead".

In 2009, a scarcely-believable record is set; and just six years later it is smashed by a large margin.