Sentence examples for the hardly from inspiring English sources
adverb
Firmly, vigorously, with strength or exertion.
Torre used the hardly complimentary "O.K".
Theirs is the world of the hardly working poor.
Never mind the inconvenience to this argument posed by women designers, or the hardly passive role played by female consumers.
A 26-foot wooden boat dating to the World War I era, the Hardly Able, carries passengers around the lake.
Then there's the hardly trifling matter of the loss of the club's license and pre-season drug offences.
The restaurant reporter for The Las Vegas Sun is the hardly anonymous Robin Leach, who was the host of "Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous".
The word hung in the air for a second followed by the hardly encouraging suggestion from the doctors "not to Google it".
His work traverses most of what inventive art has been about in our time with the hardly aware grace of a sleepwalker who dreams of Fred Astaire.
It was nothing more than countless snapshots of the famous, the almost famous and the hardly known, stuck unframed to the walls.
The hardly-noticed impact of the eruption of 1971 and the long period of time elapsed since have resulted in a subjective assumption of invulnerability (Douglas 1985) among the population of the Canaries.
Two, it could follow the hardly-innovative-at-this-point tract of delivering a free-to-play online multi-player game (or mode) while tacking on additional, "premium" content, content that you'd have to pay for.
