Sentence for seldom | Use seldom in a sentence

Seldom in a sample sentence. The sentences below are ordered by length from shorter and easier to longer and more complex. They use seldom in a sentence, providing visitors a sentence for seldom.

  • She seldom saw him: never alone. (4)
  • He seldom appeared really animated. (4)
  • She seldom went out in the evening. (8)
  • But experience shows that it seldom is. (16)
  • Naturally, that assent is seldom given. (16)
  • He seldom or never waives this privilege. (20)
  • The accidents seldom have disastrous endings. (21)
  • Seldom do they give utterance to cries of pain. (21)
  • Seldom have I heard anything that so gratified me. (10)
  • I seldom dine out, but I think I can muster up a coat. (8)
  • We seldom saw them smile, and almost never heard them laugh. (20)
  • But this did not matter much now, for he seldom wore gloves at all. (9)
  • One seldom sees a circus woman in a city after the season is over. (21)
  • He noticed how seldom she led him beyond the grounds of the chateau. (10)
  • He seldom talked, but there came times when he would not even listen. (9)
  • I seldom meet a man like you; and, when I do, I like to be remembered. (10)
  • We are now and then above our own actions; seldom on a level with them. (10)
  • Her handsome, florid face wore an expression of sadness seldom seen there. (8)
  • I have seldom looked on the east-end of a church with more complete sympathy. (2)
  • Mrs. Mel seldom indulged in a joke, and then only when it had a proverbial cast. (10)
  • He certainly is greatly, very greatly discomposed; I have seldom seen him more so. (4)
  • Miss Fairfax, who had seldom spoken before, except among her own confederates, spoke now. (4)
  • The Bulgarian side is seldom monotonous, and never for any long distance flat and marshy. (20)
  • She seldom listened to anybody for more than half a minute, and never attended to Mary at all. (4)
  • She was seldom or never at a loss; or if at a loss, was always able to convert it into a gain. (8)
  • Besides, they were seldom in London, and in the country did not wish to know anyone, in any case. (8)
  • Such a retiring man as Hilary was seldom given the opportunity for an obvious display of chivalry. (8)
  • It is the rainbow in the sky for me; and I have seldom seen a sky without some bit of rainbow in it. (9)
  • Boardman was one of those who seldom laugh; but his grin expressed all the malicious enjoyment he felt. (9)
  • He now and then ran near the rock of preciosity, though he very seldom piled up his barque on that reef. (2)
  • I do not think the fiction of our own time even always equal to this work, or perhaps more than seldom so. (9)
  • At last seldom a day went by, without one or two of their reverences finding themselves guests at the mess. (6)
  • The young men were mainly of the smoking-room sort; they seldom risked themselves among the steamer chairs. (9)
  • I am seldom wrong in gauging character; these are his vital spots, and they are of the essence of this matter. (8)
  • He is legion, strangely enough, and more remarkable still, it seldom seems to occur to him to return for his own. (21)
  • Of course, it came at last; he who ignores the law of probabilities challenges an adversary that is seldom beaten. (1)
  • Perhaps the very obvious necessity for its enforcement is at the same time the reason why it is so seldom broken. (21)
  • She, who seldom scratched anything, because it was not delicate, felt dimly that this was what he should be doing. (8)
  • Our talk was still of literature and life, but more of life than of literature, and we seldom spoke of those old times. (9)
  • Flora, whose sense of humor seldom deserted her, held the more comfortable theory that there was nothing to be done as yet. (8)
  • When nature has made us ripe for love, it seldom occurs that the Fates are behindhand in furnishing a temple for the flame. (10)
  • Summer and winter he sat there among his books, seldom stirring abroad by day except for a walk, and by night yet more rarely. (9)
  • But she stayed, and the flow of her conversation supplied him with occasion for the remarks of which he seldom varied the formula. (9)
  • Seldom a morning passed when he did not watch them leave the nest on their breakfast-flight, busy in the happy stillness of dawn. (10)
  • There are instances in which the elements have upset plans for two or three successive days, but conditions are seldom so unkind. (21)
  • His conversation at luncheon, and after luncheon, in the Club was the delight of all, but, for various reasons, I was seldom present. (2)
  • He was seldom seen at that hour of the day without a cutlass in his teeth (like Dick Needham) amid the rapid explosion of copper caps. (8)
  • One does not see much of this influence and importance in society, and how can it be acquired where they are so seldom seen themselves? (4)
  • That might very easily be, for there is seldom anything more poignant in any one of them than there is in the average course of things. (9)
  • No doubt, however, even the trained guides to the public taste seldom realize the presence of a law governing their freedom of comment. (16)
  • Country editors of the better class now treat other editors as gentlemen, and the paper that stoops to personal attacks is seldom found. (16)
  • Mrs. Pasmer, who seldom failed of doing just the right thing for herself, had promptly divined the advantages of Campobello for her family. (9)
  • Dr. Grant and Mrs. Norris were seldom good friends; their acquaintance had begun in dilapidations, and their habits were totally dissimilar. (4)
  • Bessie seldom put so much earnest in anything, and Mary loved (as she would have said) the sad sincerity, the honest hopelessness of her tone. (9)
  • It appears to be the fact that those writers who have first distinguished themselves in the novella have seldom written novels of prime order. (9)
  • He seldom played in public, and would only play for pupils, or when persuaded by devoted friends to display his extraordinary gifts as a pianist. (3)
  • He never missed that daily promenade to the Tube for Highgate, and seldom some critical transaction on the way in connection with vegetables and fruit. (8)
  • Seldom could the Kaiser go to war on Welschland without first taking earnest counsel of his Well-born son and Subject Gottlieb, and lightening his chests. (10)
  • But he worked tremendously, watching every movement; for he knew the game thoroughly, and seldom delayed it more than three minutes when he secured the ball. (8)
  • Tulln, seldom visited by the traveller on account of the superior attractions of Vienna, has more than one relic which repays careful examination and study. (20)
  • If any one reproached her, she was astonished and not seldom on the verge of tears, like some one whose pure intentions had been incomprehensibly misunderstood. (12)
  • The reach which Shelton chose was innocent of launches, champagne bottles and loud laughter; it was uncivilised, and seldom troubled by these humanising influences. (8)

Also see sentences for: rarely.

Definition of seldom:

  • seldom, sel’dum, adv. rarely: not often. | n. sel’domness. | adv. sel’dom-times. (0)

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