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Example sentences for "scarcely know"

  • How long I continued eating I scarcely know.

  • I scarcely know; I had expected to have seen him before now,' replied Kate.

  • You are so very pressing, that I scarcely know what to say,' replied the worthy lady.

  • But I must begin calmly; for I have so much to say, that I scarcely know what to say first.

  • I have the wilderness very much at heart: but the soil is excellent, and I scarcely know, Aby, how we shall make the land sufficiently barren.

  • A thousand ideas seemed crowding upon my mind; but they have expelled each other as quickly as they came, and I scarcely know what to add.

  • As for your other prodigy, I scarcely know what to make of him; except that he seems to have quite conceit enough of himself.

  • And now there is so much confusion in my thoughts--so much bewilderment in my reminiscences touching that particular period in my life, that I scarcely know how to render my ideas continuously accurate.

  • I have many matters whereon to converse with you; and, to speak candidly, scarcely know how to commence.

  • I scarcely know them, but for the sake of that one man I owe them a deep affection," said Alfred, warmly.

  • Now that you ask me in that tone, May, I scarcely know.

  • I scarcely know what I am saying," cried May, as she covered her face with her hands.

  • I scarcely know," continued Kate, with an accent less assured than before.

  • I scarcely know how to account for it; but, though I anxiously wished to do this, my resolution always failed, when the moment approached, and I constantly deferred my visit.

  • Nobody,' replied the Count; 'the rest of my people are now scattered about, I scarcely know where.

  • All the flattery of your professions--and of course, I feel it as flattery--does not blind me to the fact that I scarcely know you at all.

  • I scarcely know, because I 'm fit for so little; they tell me the colonies, Australia or New Zealand, are the places for fellows like me.

  • I scarcely know to which of the young ladies I owe my deeper acknowledgments," said Maitland, bowing.

  • Because--I scarcely know why--but it has appeared as if Madame de Villefort secretly objected to the marriage, although she did not choose openly to oppose it.

  • Indeed madame," said Monte Cristo: "I scarcely know if I dare tell you where I am going.

  • I scarcely know, however, why I linger on this particular discomfort, for it was but a single item in a considerable list of grievances, - grievances dispersed through six weeks of constant railway travel in France.

  • I scarcely know what I can say just yet," he replied.

  • I scarcely know what to say," she replied, slowly.

  • When, after leaving Monella, the two were once more alone together, Leonard burst out with the thought that filled his mind, "I scarcely know how to express my feelings.

  • What I am now I scarcely know; misery and suffering, and shame and infamies unutterable have made me--alas, I know not what!

  • Stay, Lanigan, I am sadly perplexed; I scarcely know what I say; I am in a state of inconceivable distraction.

  • I scarcely know what I am saying or doing.

  • Piedmontese, distrustful like a half-Italian, "I scarcely know whether I ought, as I have not the honor of knowing you.

  • I scarcely know," said La Mole; "my heart beats strangely.

  • I scarcely know what to call such a resolution," said Marguerite; "it is worse than ingratitude.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "scarcely know" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    absolute monarch; boiled eggs; business affairs; during that; forked tail; large teaspoonful; might say; scarcely able; scarcely audible; scarcely conscious; scarcely daring; scarcely knew; scarcely know; scarcely knowing; scarcely less; scarcely likely; scarcely more; scarcely need; scarcely perceptible; scarcely possible; scarcely think; sin que; the other; who says; who went; wise and