Sentence examples for scarcely understand from inspiring English sources

Roosevelt wrote, "I can scarcely understand what has come to us".

Problems in gene development lead to high rates of death and deformity in cloned animals, for reasons that scientists scarcely understand and have little means of preventing.

Catapulted into positions of authority, some southerners scarcely understand the distinctive history of the population they are now serving, says Momin.

Brown even sends Fanny a valentine card for reasons that he can scarcely understand himself: a shabby attempt at both seducing and lowering her in Keats's esteem?

After Kermit Roosevelt, the second of her four sons, killed himself, in 1943 — the cause of death was reported to his mother as heart failure — Mrs. Roosevelt wrote, "I can scarcely understand what has come to us".

They are not keen on rococo corporate structures (cross-shareholdings between units based in assorted offshore jurisdictions, say) which mere mortals can scarcely understand, let alone disentangle in a crisis.

At the beginning of the 17th century, the ocean was scarcely understood and riskily charted.

The cause of these mass killings was not "intolerance," but something else, still scarcely understood.

His tragedy is that he scarcely understands the cosmic forces that propel him towards his ruin.

He dreams of living with his brother's family, whose carefully managed dynamics he upsets in ways he scarcely understands.

Eisenhower scarcely understood the power of the weaponry that he was inviting Nixon to bring onto the field.