On the night of the show, he could hardly speak.
George suddenly felt so happy that she could hardly speak.
We hardly spoke at all to each other about Mother.
For the rest of the drive back to town he hardly spoke.
He sat with her for the better part of an hour, hardly speaking.
They hardly spoke more than a couple of words in six months.
At the time he hardly spoke one word of English.
Her heart was going so fast that she could hardly speak for five minutes.
I was back very late last night, and we hardly spoke this morning.
She had hardly spoken to me since we got into the car in front of my building.