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hardly English
Meaning hardly meaning
What does hardly mean?
Definitions in simple English
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Synonyms hardly synonyms
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Examples hardly examples
How do I use hardly in a sentence?
Simple sentences
It hardly ever rains here.
We had hardly started when it began to rain.
He was so tired that he could hardly stand.
Hardly anyone thinks that we are sisters.
My parents hardly ever punished me for anything.
He has hardly any money, but he gets by.
I hardly knew Tom.
Hardly anyone reads my blog.
Tom hardly ever relies on other people for help.
She hardly fits into that car. Find something better for her.
Hardly had they left the building when it suddenly collapsed.
It is nice to see so many languages together. You will hardly see it anywhere else outside Tatoeba.
Tom hardly ever gets angry.
I can hardly hear you.
The express train went by so fast that we hardly saw it.
It is hardly worth discussing.
I had hardly left home when it began raining.
I had hardly left home when it began to rain heavily.
The rocket was hardly up when it exploded.
She can hardly speak Japanese.
He studied hard, hardly taking time out for lunch.
I can hardly walk.
You hardly ever work, do you?
I may have seen that film before, but I can hardly remember it.
It is hardly raining.
This is hardly the time to start a new enterprise.
There was hardly anyone who didn't laugh when the singer fell off the stage.
Movie subtitles
Mine. hardly even noticed I was gone.
You sell many? Hardly ever, which makes it all the more unique.
That's hardly a crime. Reverend Greene, on the other hand, well, you were always keen to play.
It's hardly proof. Well, at least we have proof of one thing.
And, given the grim circumstances of Patsy's death, it's hardly surprising.
I can hardly even remember swallowing those pills.
A pan of custard is hardly a nutritional crime.
There's hardly going to be hordes of patients going direct from Family Planning to Antenatal.
You hardly do it on purpose.
And a new hair band will hardly break the bank.
I'd hardly be this upset if she was after Dubois.
We can hardly take that chance.
Hardly clever.
That's hardly the point.
Ah, hardly.
You hardly find models.
Hardly anyone knows her name.
Hardly brandy glasses!
But we can hardly become perpetual visitors.
I hardly expected you to have.
But I hardly think there are wolves so near London.
It was so thick that I could hardly see the light by my bedside.
I can hardly believe it!
Let's wait till we eat, there's hardly enough lunch for two.
That's hardly a surprise.
I could hardly sing, and I could barely wait until I saw him again.
I could hardly sing.
And they hardly give permission to anyone.
I hardly think so, and there's something else I wanna bring to your mind.
I could hardly drag him away.
He hardly sees his patients, sir.
I'm so tired I can't hardly see out of my eyes.
Why, I've hardly stopped shivering since I left Montreal.
News and current affairs
He could hardly have been held responsible for the hubris which led to the avalanche of 1973, yet it nonetheless brought him down as well.
The nature of suffering around the world hardly justifies this narrow strategy.
One more thing: even if we managed to do all this (which we obviously cannot), the impact on global temperatures would be hardly noticeable by 2050.
As for Germany and the Germans, one hardly recognizes one's own country and people.
The Cup's organization has been exceptional (as was to be expected), with excellent police work giving hooligans hardly a chance.
Of course, Annan can hardly control the UN by imposing great strategies on everyone else, as American corporate CEOs do.
The few instances of success occurred in countries that marched to their own drummers--and that are hardly poster children for neoliberalism.
The Middle East is a place where the dust hardly ever settles.
Moreover, Kundera's case is hardly unique.
That hardly seems a rational policy for a continent in profound transition.
But times are hardly normal.
But the livelihoods of most of the middle-aged rural white Americans who support the Tea Party are hardly threatened by poor Mexican migrants.
The principles of human rights have been widely adopted, imitated, and ratified by developing countries, so it is hardly fair to suggest that they have been imposed on them.
Georgia's economic success has been largely dependent on direct foreign investment, for which there is hardly any appetite today.
That is hardly surprising, as previously revered firms revealed that they did not fully understand the very instruments they dealt in or the risks they assumed.
And South Africa's last apartheid leader, F. W. de Klerk, was initially perceived as just another apologist for the system - hardly the man to free Nelson Mandela and oversee the end of white minority rule.
While billions of dollars in aid have led to improvements in urban areas, where health facilities have been built and midwives trained, the overall maternal death figures have hardly changed.
Indeed, the Gul case is hardly the only well-publicized case.
The contrast with Africa's debts could hardly be starker.
In an era where yesterday has become almost irrelevant and we can hardly predict tomorrow, the role of education must allow all children to reach their highest potential.
And the opaque Ecuadorian methods are not possible in Europe, both for legal reasons and because a transaction of this size could hardly be disguised or outsourced.
While the US has problems, it hardly fits the description of absolute decline in ancient Rome, and the analogy to British decline, however popular, is similarly misleading.
While China's rulers aspire to shape a Sino-centric Asia, their efforts to intimidate smaller neighbors hardly make China a credible candidate for Asian leadership.
I can hardly think of a better way for the EU to dishonor the noble ideals of freedom, equality, and human rights that the Union espouses - indeed, principles that it reiterates in its constitutional agreement.