How to Use hardly in a Sentence

hardly

adverb
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  • This is hardly a new idea for a movie.
  • The changes in service have hardly been noticed.
  • Hardly anyone showed up for the meeting.
  • There are hardly any new features in this software.
  • Hardly a day goes by when I don't think about you.
  • It hardly matters what I think.
  • Gomez skipped the 2024 VMAs, but she’s hardly been off the scene.
    — Elizabeth Logan, Glamour, 15 Sep. 2024
  • The stakes could hardly be higher for this year’s edition of The Game.
    — Mark Heim | Mheim@al.com, al, 26 Nov. 2022
  • There’s schools on this street, and cars hardly ever stop at the stop signs.
    — Jordan Anderson, Chicago Tribune, 9 Dec. 2022
  • The tour has hardly been alone in seeking a range of evidence for the case.
    — Alan Blinder, New York Times, 24 Jan. 2023
  • The Texas Chain Saw Massacre’s path to theaters and drive-ins in the fall of 1974 was hardly a smooth or straight one.
    — Chris Nashawaty, The Hollywood Reporter, 24 Oct. 2024
  • Yet that hardly accounts for the bulk of the head-scratching cases.
    — USA TODAY, 23 Feb. 2024
  • Wind noise was remarkably low, and the car was hardly tapped out.
    — Csaba Csere, Car and Driver, 28 July 2023
  • But the Moon hardly looks like a water world, or even a place with a few puddles.
    — Thomas Orlando, Discover Magazine, 9 Aug. 2024
  • The stakes could hardly be higher for both India and Adani Group.
    — Megha Mandavia, WSJ, 30 Jan. 2023
  • But who’s in leading roles in front of and behind the camera has hardly changed.
    — Malia Mendez, Los Angeles Times, 17 Aug. 2023
  • In some places, the water hardly covers the pebbles lining the riverbed.
    — Alissa J. Rubin Bryan Denton, New York Times, 29 July 2023
  • In his last years, my old pal Myles Brown suffered a stroke and could hardly get around.
    — Jack O’Connor, Outdoor Life, 4 Sep. 2024
  • The idea of a vampire who doesn’t want to kill is hardly without precedent.
    — Jessica Kiang, Variety, 16 Sep. 2023
  • But a tattoo is hardly the biggest change on the horizon for Jones.
    — J. Kim Murphy, Variety, 8 Dec. 2022
  • These are hardly the jobs Anaheimers need to be able to afford to live here, let alone live a good life.
    — Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 8 May 2024
  • This is hardly the first time Tupperware has warned the end might be near.
    — Chris Morris, Fortune, 1 Apr. 2024
  • The wide price ranges are hardly a surprise for long-time GPU watchers though.
    — PCMAG, 10 Nov. 2022
  • The bank is hardly alone in its connection to U.S. slavery.
    — Khristopher J. Brooks, CBS News, 28 July 2023
  • But the Fed had hardly gotten started – the FFR was only at 1.5%, which should not have been enough to inflect the trend.
    — George Calhoun, Forbes, 17 July 2023
  • Plus, the compact size takes up hardly any space inside your bag.
    — Mia Meltzer, Rolling Stone, 21 June 2024
  • Striking workers will be paid $400 a week, hardly enough to make ends meet.
    — Jonathan Wosen, STAT, 14 Nov. 2022
  • That the RedHawks had no answer for him was hardly a surprise.
    — Zach Osterman, The Indianapolis Star, 20 Nov. 2022
  • But when his team analyzed day-by-day photos of the same spot, the items velcroed to the wall hardly changed in those 60 days.
    — Jacek Krywko, Ars Technica, 9 Aug. 2024
  • Although their legacy may be as German Mother Geese, the brothers regarded their fairy-tale volumes as one project among many, and hardly the most important.
    — Jennifer Wilson, The New Yorker, 4 Nov. 2024

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