Synonyms

1. just
2. barely
3. scarce
4. hardly

Sentence Examples

1. These ruffians, united by a secret bond, strangled victims of every age in honour of the goddess Death, without ever shedding blood there was a period when this part of the country could scarcely be travelled over without corpses being found in every direction.
2. The moon, on the wane, scarcely left the horizon, and was covered with heavy clouds the height of the trees deepened the darkness.
3. She was a marvel, a work of such beauty he could scarcely believe she was real.
4. Fogg and Sir Francis stood erect, the Parsee bowed his head, and Passepartout was, no doubt, scarcely less stupefied.
5. But I could feel all eyes on me as I went to the kitchen, and could scarcely defend myself when the proprietor, Eileen, sought my version of events.
6. The panorama passed before their eyes like a flash, save when the steam concealed it fitfully from the view the travellers could scarcely discern the fort of Chupenie, twenty miles south-westward from Benares, the ancient stronghold of the rajahs of Behar or Ghazipur and its famous rose-water factories or the tomb of Lord Cornwallis, rising on the left bank of the Ganges the fortified town of Buxar, or Patna, a large manufacturing and trading-place, where is held the principal opium market of India or Monghir, a more than European town, for it is as English as Manchester or Birmingham, with its iron foundries, edgetool factories, and high chimneys puffing clouds of black smoke heavenward.
7. At the crest, the village of Haría begins, and I wend my way down more narrow streets, built for feet and the occasional cart, streets scarcely wide enough for two cars to pass.
8. The multicoloured floor was alive with flailing limbs, sweat drenched hair, and wild cries of delight and laughter that could scarcely be heard through the thunderous music.
9. Phileas Fogg and Sir Francis Cromarty, plunged to the neck in the peculiar howdahs provided for them, were horribly jostled by the swift trotting of the elephant, spurred on as he was by the skilful Parsee but they endured the discomfort with true British phlegm, talking little, and scarcely able to catch a glimpse of each other.
10. When I read the news, I could scarcely contain my excitement.