hardly
Example Sentences
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On Tuesday, hardly any rate hikes were expected, Bloomberg’s data showed.
From MarketWatch
On that basis the venerable bank could hardly have chosen a more suitable leader.
As metafiction goes, it could hardly be more poignant, though poignancy is not the author’s style.
In concert, she’s powerful, hardly a princess of perfection but gorgeously garish, a fun and funny powerhouse provocateur, dripping in costumes, onstage audience members and sweat.
From Los Angeles Times
The three of us hardly heard: Tante Jans’s chair was empty.
From Literature
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
