Reed considered the residents "effectually broken and hardly resembling what they had been a few months before."

Instead of the taste he was accustomed to, a very bland flavor, hardly resembling coffee at all, washed over his tongue.

Mr. Xu emerged today from Beijing No. 1 prison looking fit and cheerful, and hardly resembling a man who had spent the last dozen years in solitary confinement.

Sweet-potato creme brulee is an oxymoron - tasty, but hardly resembling the real thing.

Tonight's game hardly resembled that one; this was characterized by tight checking, with few chances for either team.

Miami fell to 3-5, hardly resembling the team that bullied the Dallas Mavericks in the finals in June.

Today the profession hardly resembles what it was in the 1940s.

In most of the pictures, the whole mind and character were brought out on the countenance, and concentrated into a single look, so that, to speak paradoxically, the originals hardly resembled themselves so strikingly as the portraits did.

Today in front of a sellout at the Oakland Coliseum, the Yankees folded quickly, hardly resembling a team that has stayed so close to first.

She hardly resembled the brave 22-year-old woman with a pretty smile and thick chestnut locks.