Sentence for scarce | Use scarce in a sentence

Sentences using the word scarce. The sentences below are ordered by length from shorter and easier to longer and more complex. They use scarce in a sentence, providing visitors a sentence for scarce.

• I scarce remember an incident but one. (2)
• Their memories scarce seem their own! (10)
• He checked himself: he scarce dared to say it. (10)
• Money, since Paul became housekeeper to himself, was scarce. (8)
• I had scarce explored my niche when Brother Ambrose returned. (2)
• She thinks it scarce worth while to look up to reassure him. (10)
• As for skating, there is scarce any city so handsomely provided. (2)
• The drawback was the structure, which had no charm, scarce a face. (10)
• At the time he made this lofty demand he had scarce forty men at his back! (19)
• Nataly dropped before the unseeing, scarce breathing, lady for an instant. (10)
• She gave a faint, scarce audible shriek, and sank into the chair beside me. (6)
• The floating of a hawk overhead scarce had the character of an animated thing. (10)
• A happier nor a healthier company I should scarce suppose that I have ever seen. (2)
• But the place itself, although capital of a canton, is scarce larger than a hamlet. (2)
• The season bloomed scarce longer than a week for Hippias, and then began to languish. (10)
• But on one fatal July day it was all but defenceless: scarce a warrior was to be seen. (19)
• Her humble and modest jealousy, scarce deserving the title, passed with a sigh or two. (10)
• Brock had scarce need to call for volunteer battalions before they were already formed. (19)
• The words had scarce left his lips ere the brave Brock sank down shot through the breast. (19)
• Willoughby appeared to her scarce human, unreadable, save by the key that she could supply. (10)
• The language they had fallen upon was mystical, scarce intelligible to other than themselves. (10)
• It is scarce possible to avoid observing your neighbours; and I never yet heard of any one who tried. (2)
• Yet the new arrivals could not have come at a worse time, for food was scarce and nearly all were poor. (19)
• He scarce had the power to conduct himself reverently, so intense was his longing to show her his sympathy. (10)
• He scarce had the power to conduct himself reverently, so intense was his longing to show her his sympathy. (22)
• The severe storms and heavy snows of the winter made game very scarce and the Indians were near starvation. (18)
• Now whether night advancing, whether day, Scarce did the baldness show: The hand of man was a defeated hand. (10)
• Next morning came the usual short impatient scrawl on thin blue paper from Edward, scarce worthy of a passing thought. (10)
• Next morning came the usual short impatient scrawl on thin blue paper from Edward, scarce worthy of a passing thought. (22)
• Thereat he stared on vacancy with a serious eye, and he could scarce credit her earnestness, but she repeated the same. (10)
• So the guests were tolerably happy, or at least, with scarce an exception, open to the influences of champagne and music. (10)
• He is scarce, because he is little read and newspapers cannot give him the space he requires for analysis and recollection. (16)
• X No touch gave she to hound in leash, No wink to sword in sheath: She seemed a woman scarce of flesh; Above it, or beneath. (10)
• That infamous conspiracy to which he owed his degradation and misery scarce left him the feelings of a man when he thought of it. (10)
• The mountains and the valleys scarce had names for her understanding; they were but a scene where the will of her Maker was at work. (10)
• He trifled with the letter for some time, re-reading chosen passages as he walked about the room, and considering he scarce knew what. (10)
• For scarce had they got footing on the winding path of the crags, when the whole vengeance of the storm was hurled against the mountain. (10)
• None of these, however, were destined to occur; and Emily lay still and motionless as she was, scarce seeming to breathe, and pale as death. (6)
• The peasantry were abroad; scarce less terrible to me in my nondescript position than the soldiers of Captain Poul to an undaunted Camisard. (2)
• His veterans and auxiliaries, The trained, the trustful, sanguine, proud, Princely, scarce numerable to recite, – Titanic of all Titan tragedies! (10)
• Young Rhodes was left with scarce a feather; and what remained to him appeared a preposterous ornament for the decoration of a shivering and welted poet. (10)
• Mention of the military cloak of enthusiasm covering Shalders, brought the scarce credible old time to smite at his breast, in the presence of these eyes. (10)
• As we advanced they became scarce; buffalo became scarce; bear, deer, rabbits, sage-hens, even prairie dogs gave out, and we were near starving. (7)

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