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Example sentences for "scarcely audible"

  • In a scarcely audible voice he enquired: "And has Henrietta refused to honour that bill?

  • Then of one accord rolled to their feet and spreading their baby wings aloft, as though to balance, walked deliberately away with fine, scarcely audible cheeping, each in a slightly different direction.

  • The note of the young was a low rusty squeak, scarcely audible to human ears.

  • Then the buck disappears into the forest, but so warily that the sound of his footsteps is scarcely audible.

  • The patter of their tiny feet is scarcely audible on the soft carpets.

  • He is gone," she whispered, in a scarcely audible tone.

  • We must pray," whispered the peasant who lay on the bench, in a scarcely audible voice.

  • There below they have started to sing something in scarcely audible voices; it was half song, half prayer.

  • A scarcely audible, melancholy song reached his ears--mournful and monotonous as a chant on the caravan the watchmen called to one another; the steamer hissed angrily getting up steam.

  • It was quiet on the steamer and on the barges, only from the shore came indistinct sounds of conversation, and the river was splashing, scarcely audible, against the sides of the steamer.

  • Susie blushed up to the ears and replied in a scarcely audible voice-- "I would rather have Martin!

  • Susie," she replied, in a scarcely audible voice.

  • Fanny, involuntarily trembling, uttered, with an effort, a scarcely audible "Go on!

  • I've found the wild-cat," answered Frank, in a scarcely audible voice.

  • Lee accordingly released him, and James said, in a scarcely audible voice, "I was only in fun.

  • The peculiar rustle of a lady's dress informed me that the intruder was of the gentler sex; and the sound of the footstep, so light as to be scarcely audible, could proceed from no other inmate of the cottage but Fanny.

  • No," he said, in a scarcely audible voice.

  • From behind the first keened once more that ghastly and smothered escape of suffering, scarcely audible.

  • His laugh, scarcely audible, was like the wrath of a gigantic sneer.

  • A movement, scarcely audible, reached him from the next room.

  • He took a cracker and thanked her briefly in a scarcely audible voice.

  • To Lala's Hotel," was the direction he gave in a scarcely audible voice.

  • The curate recoiled and murmured in a scarcely audible voice, "Well?


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    fetch water; four lights; having three; heavy loss; human affection; little help; much force; much treasure; never told; risen from the dead; scarcely able; scarcely audible; scarcely daring; scarcely knew; scarcely less; scarcely likely; scarcely more; scarcely necessary; scarcely perceptible; scarcely possible; scarcely think; sixty degrees; sometimes find; these matters; this opinion; vocal cords