Sentence examples for scarcely take from inspiring English sources

The scrappy, hardscrabble parish of St. Mark's could scarcely take on such expensive restoration projects itself.

Having given Mr. Slimane much authority to remake Saint Laurent, he could scarcely take it away from him.

"Sometimes you read old biographies where you scarcely take a note," Mr. Caro told Vanity Fair in 2005.

In Mr. King's view, the Democrats can scarcely take credit for all the nation's prosperity in recent years.

Congress proposes to adjourn by the end of next month but it can scarcely take action on all the matters commended to its attention by the President when he took office.

So much diversion is crammed into these 95 minutes – charging bulls, cute piglets, stereoscopic maze-running, Latin-tinged covers of Radiohead and the Mumfords – that the central love triangle can scarcely take hold.

Days were scarcely better.

He often drove himself to the office, where he worked until midnight, scarcely taking time off.

Since that day, until last Monday evening, Australian cricket has scarcely taken a backward step.

And yet, so scunnered is he, once he gets to Ibrox he scarcely takes in the game.

Many died on the voyage out, and the projected colony scarcely took shape before being destroyed by illness, climate and factionalism -- and ultimately by the Spanish, who had a prior claim on the land and, when it suited them, expelled the settlers easily and with surprising compassion.