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Examples of rarely in a Sentence
She rarely talks about her past.
Rarely do we see this kind of weather in our area.
Only rarely is surgery necessary to treat this condition.
Recent Examples of rarely from the Web
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The pair rarely appear in public together and have yet to make their red carpet debut as a couple.
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The curious thing about Friday’s selloff is that trade rarely looms large as an influence, positive or negative, on global stock prices.
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Aldridge’s Blazers, like this season’s Spurs, were rarely a playoff shoo-in, however.
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In the bedroom of a friend's house whose parents were rarely home, the boy had put on a condom, barely pushed inside me, shuddered, and then never spoke to me again.
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Unlike in math, science and English, rarely were students late to my class.
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Dupski opted for Lawrence to close out the game on the hill, even though the senior rarely pitched on the varsity level.
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Another said the number of mattress manufacturers, which are rarely the startups actually marketing the mattresses to consumers, is close to 500.
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As multiple people have pointed out, these sort of adjectives are rarely, if ever, used to describe actual victims of injustice such as Michael Brown, or more recently, Stephon Clark.
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First Known Use of rarely
1549
rarely Synonyms
Synonyms
Antonyms
frequently, oft, often, oftentimes (or ofttimes);
Near Antonyms
customarily, generally, habitually, ordinarily, routinely, usually;
always, constantly, continually, continuously, endlessly, eternally, ever, everlastingly, evermore, forever, invariably, perennially, perpetually, unceasingly;
Phrases
once in a blue moon;
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