Sentence examples for was hardly looking from inspiring English sources

By the end [the mother] was hardly looking at the baby and just wanted to chat.

MONTREAL — The sizable scientific team at Ocean Nutrition Canada in Halifax, Nova Scotia, the world's largest supplier of omega-3 EPA and DHA fatty acid supplements, was hardly looking for an alternative to conventional fossil fuels.

"The president shook my hand and said, 'Stay on it,' so that's what I've been telling my people, 'We got to stay on it.'" Mr. Baas said that after a hard day's work, he was hardly looking for luxurious lodging.

It was hardly looking like a cliff-hanger.

Morgen, 46, was hardly looking to devour Cobain before Love approached him with the offer that set "Montage in Heck" in motion.

With a Dixiecrat voting record on issues of civil rights, the new president was hardly looked upon by African-Americans as a safe pair of hands, but in his first address to Congress, Johnson vowed – for the nation, as a tribute to his slaughtered predecessor and undoubtedly for himself – to see Kennedy's civil rights bill through to law.

This is hardly looking for the needle in the haystack.

The Chinese are hardly looking to extend their Islamic troubles with an adventure there.

We know that most of the people are escaping horrific conflicts from countries like Syria, Somalia and Eritrea; and are hardly looking for a better-paying job or economic benefits.

But I don't think it negates the argument that the Guantanamo prisoners deserve their day in court to suggest that the fundamentalists of al-Qaeda and, now, Isis are hardly looking for peaceful negotiations.

But Leavelle, a vigorous 59-year-old, is hardly looking for some cramped efficiency in a retirement complex.