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View definitions for scarcely

scarcely

adverb as in barely

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Even so, you can scarcely take your eyes off the screen.

Rangers deserve credit for their doggedness in a crisis - and that's pretty much all you can say about a game that will scarcely see out the night in the memory bank.

From BBC

Putbacks in the paint became reruns in her mind, and Hollingdale said the brain scarcely knows the difference: If it sees it vividly enough, the muscles prime themselves as if the movement truly happened.

Meanwhile, Chris Davies' first season in management could scarcely have gone better as he led Birmingham City to a record-breaking 111 points as they won the League One title.

From BBC

The couple already had five rescue cats; they scarcely had room for a 40-pound Labrador-pit bull mix on top of that.

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