"scarcely" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

scarcely adverbio

verbo + scarcely
Kolokacji: 115
scarcely believe • scarcely notice • scarcely know • scarcely hear • scarcely see • scarcely seem • scarcely move • ...
collocations grouped by meanings
Grup znaczeniowych: 20
(3) hear, glance, listen
Kolokacji: 3
(7) breathe, pause
Kolokacji: 2
(11) dare, walk
Kolokacji: 2
(14) exist, last
Kolokacji: 2
(15) sleep, populate, dream
Kolokacji: 3
(16) use, eat
Kolokacji: 2
1. scarcely used = niezbyt używany scarcely used
2. scarcely eat = ledwie zjedz scarcely eat
  • Wili, those first few years, was so weak he could scarcely eat even when food was right at hand.
  • He scarcely ate a morsel, and immediately after breakfast went out again.
  • She could scarcely eat any dinner, and when they afterwards returned to the drawing room, seemed anxiously listening to the sound of every carriage.
  • She scarcely ate that he could see, and her energy seemed more frenetic than natural.
  • Dorothy was so excited over the revelation Ozana had just made that she could scarcely eat.
  • As it was, the poor brutes were so tired that some of them could scarcely eat, and all lay down at the first opportunity.
  • He hastened to make food ready, but the child was far spent and would scarcely eat.
  • The demons of creativity possessed him; he saw no reason to eat and scarcely any to sleep.
  • I scarcely ate enough to keep my frame inhabited.
  • He could scarcely eat, however, he was so anxious to be about his errand.
(17) miss, hope, escape
Kolokacji: 3
(18) stir, budge
Kolokacji: 2
(20) diminish, slow
Kolokacji: 2
scarcely + adjetivo
Kolokacji: 25
scarcely aware • scarcely able • scarcely audible • scarcely visible • scarcely possible • ...

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