While the Nets hardly drew a full house away from three hours of pre-game festivities, it was a start.

He was all tore up, couldn't hardly draw a breath.

Elizabeth laughed and said she could hardly draw stick figures.

I asked her once and she said she could hardly draw stick figures.

The girl was staring up at Oliver, her scream so continuous that she hardly drew breath.

She made no sound at all, she hardly drew breath.

And I hardly drew it from a hard to find source.

A familiar terror welled into her chest, until she could hardly draw breath.

The woman hardly drew breath, certainly not enough for him to get a word in.

Kirk waited, as they all did, hardly drawing breath.