seldom
Example Sentences
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The protests spread nationwide, reaching as far as the Persian Gulf island of Qeshm, a free-trade zone that has seldom seen any kind of political mobilization.
Still, historically, economic warfare has seldom been sufficient to achieve geostrategic goals.
Amid all the coverage of this sad story, seldom is the most pertinent fact even mentioned.
Many such practices are already illegal but seldom prosecuted.
From Los Angeles Times
Their authors were seldom scholars; more often they were nonprofessional writers and editors whose volunteer contributions ranged from family snapshots to gravestone photographs, fragmented town histories, folkloric anecdotes and tall tales.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
