How to Use hardly in a Sentence

hardly

adverb

• This is hardly a new idea for a movie.
• The changes in service have hardly been noticed.
• Hardly anyone showed up for the meeting.
• There are hardly any new features in this software.
• Hardly a day goes by when I don't think about you.
• It hardly matters what I think.
• The tour has hardly been alone in seeking a range of evidence for the case.
  — Alan Blinder, New York Times, 24 Jan. 2023
• Yet that hardly accounts for the bulk of the head-scratching cases.
  — USA TODAY, 23 Feb. 2024
• Wind noise was remarkably low, and the car was hardly tapped out.
  — Csaba Csere, Car and Driver, 28 July 2023
• The stakes could hardly be higher for both India and Adani Group.
  — Megha Mandavia, WSJ, 30 Jan. 2023
• But who’s in leading roles in front of and behind the camera has hardly changed.
  — Malia Mendez, Los Angeles Times, 17 Aug. 2023
• In some places, the water hardly covers the pebbles lining the riverbed.
  — Alissa J. Rubin Bryan Denton, New York Times, 29 July 2023
• The idea of a vampire who doesn’t want to kill is hardly without precedent.
  — Jessica Kiang, Variety, 16 Sep. 2023
• This is hardly the first time Tupperware has warned the end might be near.
  — Chris Morris, Fortune, 1 Apr. 2024
• The bank is hardly alone in its connection to U.S. slavery.
  — Khristopher J. Brooks, CBS News, 28 July 2023
• But the Fed had hardly gotten started – the FFR was only at 1.5%, which should not have been enough to inflect the trend.
  — George Calhoun, Forbes, 17 July 2023
• Emerging from the shower only to be greeted by towels that hardly dry you off is not the way to start the day.
  — Amy Schulman, Peoplemag, 9 Oct. 2023
• The thinking here is comfort, not so much speed, though its top speed of 20 knots is hardly lethargic.
  — Howard Walker, Robb Report, 23 Oct. 2023
• For example, fentanyl was hardly on the streets in 2014.
  — The San Diego Union-Tribune Staff, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Feb. 2024
• But the group is hardly backing away from the former president.
  — Emily Zemler, Rolling Stone, 27 Nov. 2023
• But stable is hardly the best way to describe the economy and prices right now.
  — Thomas Lee, BostonGlobe.com, 30 July 2023
• This is hardly the first time Liz has caught him mid-debauchery.
  — Time, 23 Jan. 2023
• For a movie that hardly requires any special effects, so much of it feels like it might as well have been filmed in front of a green screen.
  — Alphonse Pierre, Pitchfork, 8 Mar. 2024
• And the tournament had hardly started when Keira Walsh, the team’s fulcrum in the midfield, went down with a leg injury.
  — Louisa Thomas, The New Yorker, 19 Aug. 2023
• Some restaurants are attempting to fight back with new policies, but at summer’s peak, the street toughs of the skies hardly care.
  — Lindsay Crudele, BostonGlobe.com, 8 Aug. 2023
• But strides made in one region may hardly be enough to tackle AI’s challenges.
  — Prarthana Prakash, Fortune Europe, 15 Jan. 2024
• An election that doesn’t involve some risk, to someone, is hardly any good.
  — Amy Davidson Sorkin, The New Yorker, 7 Jan. 2024
• There’s a cozy place to read in every room but hardly any light for doing so after bedtime.
  — Casey Cep, The New Yorker, 11 Sep. 2023
• This year is hardly the first to see a major controversy in the playoffs.
  — Ben Volin, BostonGlobe.com, 30 Jan. 2023
• But the memeable Marvel spinoff was hardly the Razzies' most hated film of last year.
  — Patrick Ryan, USA TODAY, 23 Jan. 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024