Scarcely can be categorized as an adverb.
Adverb |
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| scarcely - almost not; "he hardly ever goes fishing"; "he was hardly more than sixteen years old"; "they scarcely ever used the emergency generator" | ||
| scarcely - only a very short time before; "they could barely hear the speaker"; "we hardly knew them"; "just missed being hit"; "had scarcely rung the bell when the door flew open"; "would have scarce arrived before she would have found some excuse to leave"- W.B.Yeats |
| # | Sentence | ||
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| 1. | adv. | They scarcely ever used the emergency generator. | |
| 2. | adv. | Had scarcely rung the bell when the door flew open. | |
| 3. | adv. | There are scarcely any flowers in our garden. | |
| 4. | adv. | Scarcely had the rain stopped before a rainbow appeared. | |
| 5. | adv. | Scarcely an hour goes by that I don't I think of you with love. | |
| 6. | adv. | We had scarcely returned when it began raining. | |
| 7. | adv. | Mary scarcely seems to care for me, does she? | |
| 8. | adv. | Scarcely had the market opened when the fire broke out. | |
| 9. | adv. | Bob was so beside himself that he could scarcely tell fact from fiction. | |
| 10. | adv. | I scarcely slept a wink. | |
| 11. | adv. | I can scarcely believe it. | |
| 12. | adv. | After the disaster, there was scarcely any water left on the island. | |
| 13. | adv. | Scarcely had the dog seen me before in ran away. | |
| 14. | adv. | I scarcely think so. | |
| 15. | adv. | There was scarcely any money left. |
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| adv. | |
| They scarcely ever used the emergency generator. |
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| Had scarcely rung the bell when the door flew open. |
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| There are scarcely any flowers in our garden. | |
| Scarcely had the rain stopped before a rainbow appeared. | |
| Scarcely an hour goes by that I don't I think of you with love. | |
| We had scarcely returned when it began raining. | |
| Mary scarcely seems to care for me, does she? | |
| Scarcely had the market opened when the fire broke out. | |
| Bob was so beside himself that he could scarcely tell fact from fiction. | |
| I scarcely slept a wink. | |
| I can scarcely believe it. | |
| After the disaster, there was scarcely any water left on the island. | |
| Scarcely had the dog seen me before in ran away. | |
| I scarcely think so. | |
| There was scarcely any money left. | |