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.
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The women rarely have close friends, only rival hostesses and often down-market sisters.
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Libby Gelman-Waxner, New Yorker, 21 Apr. 2026
One very rarely gets the chance to be in a room with almost two hundred filmmakers from one single country, gathered not to pitch against one another for scarce grants, but to discuss ways of collaborating and understand where their national cinema is headed.
—Rafa Sales Ross, Variety, 21 Apr. 2026
One of those problems is the lack of quality fact checkers and the fact that major publications rarely have fact checking departments anymore.
—Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 21 Apr. 2026
And yet, rarely have the two countries felt so far apart in how each sees the world.
—Nataliya Gumenyuk, The Dial, 21 Apr. 2026
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Libby Gelman-Waxner, New Yorker, 21 Apr. 2026
One very rarely gets the chance to be in a room with almost two hundred filmmakers from one single country, gathered not to pitch against one another for scarce grants, but to discuss ways of collaborating and understand where their national cinema is headed.
—Rafa Sales Ross, Variety, 21 Apr. 2026
One of those problems is the lack of quality fact checkers and the fact that major publications rarely have fact checking departments anymore.
—Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 21 Apr. 2026
And yet, rarely have the two countries felt so far apart in how each sees the world.
—Nataliya Gumenyuk, The Dial, 21 Apr. 2026
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“Rarely.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/rarely. Accessed 29 Apr. 2026.
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rarely
adverb
rare·ly
ˈra(ə)r-lē 
ˈre(ə)r-
: not often : seldom
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