Sentence examples for scarcely thought from inspiring English sources

Billington says he scarcely thought any more of it.

Trump's election victory is something Putin has fervently wished for, but scarcely thought possible.

As a nation, we scarcely thought twice about paying Bell Boeing billions of dollars for a fleet of Osprey tilt-rotor aircraft.

Beer and ale were scarcely thought of as intoxicants; you would have had to drink vast quantities of small beer to become "foxed" or "fuddled," and, because the water available to Londoners was so foul, mildly alcoholic beverages were safer.

One year ago, Sri Lankans saw an end to terror, an end our people scarcely thought possible.

Throughout all this, I scarcely thought about the fact that Springsteen was using a prompter for his dialogue — either because he wasn't looking at it that often or because his performance kept my attention from the very large monitor hanging from the front of the mezzanine.

Many people give scarcely a thought to being electronically snooped on as they browse, but some object furiously.In this section Twilight for BP in Russia?

A FEW years ago, retailers hailed the Internet as the ideal self-service medium, a place where they could set up shop, post thousands of pages of product information and give scarcely a thought to spending on customer service.

Like its bigger and better financed rivals, Prodigy (owned by IBM and Sears) and Compuserve, AOL had given scarcely a thought to the Internet that would soon transform all such electronic services.It was AOL's populism as well as brave and brilliant marketing that enabled it to show a clean pair of heels to Prodigy, Compuserve and even MSN.

These, I discovered, were brought in by members of staff and volunteers, so that when homeless clients had a job or a housing interview, a health appointment, a period, they could access the hygiene essentials most of us are able to toss into a shopping trolley with scarcely a thought.

We live in innocence (or is it ignorance?) with scarcely a thought for how the answers are determined, as our personal involvement in decision making is steadily eroded.