Yet I was hardly prepared for the sight he presented here.

This upbringing hardly prepared them for the world they would soon face.

The television images hardly prepare one for seeing the destruction up close.

I am hardly prepared to decide that question, or even give an opinion regarding it.

But it was hardly prepared for what the Virginians did.

Somehow, he comes across hardly prepared for a job like this and, at the same time, the most logical choice in the universe.

"We must first settle the main duty of property," he said; "and that I am hardly prepared to do."

Afterwards, Evan had been very ill and so was hardly prepared for the difficult first months of motherhood.

She was hardly prepared to start a program.

But Burl and his companions were hardly prepared to see it that way at first glimpse.