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Example sentences for "scarcely likely"

  • Still, it is scarcely likely to trouble you, except that your husband will have a good deal to face.

  • She knows her duty, and is scarcely likely to flinch from doing it.

  • Whether the thing was of great value I do not know, and it is scarcely likely I shall ever know.

  • It's scarcely likely I'll ever come back," he said.

  • It is scarcely likely that he would have done so, for he had an excellent sense of hearing and was making very little noise, had not a trooper stopped to do something to his newly-issued winter coat, which did not fit him comfortably.

  • Considering that you live on the fourth story they're scarcely likely to come in that way.

  • If there is not a good deal a third-share is scarcely likely to recompense me for leaving the other claim, especially when there is a thousand dollars to come out of this one.

  • It is scarcely likely that I shall have a more favorable opportunity.

  • At least, it is scarcely likely to take place without a little judicious encouragement.

  • Well, it is scarcely likely to be to your disadvantage, and I think you are wise in telling me.

  • In fact, it's scarcely likely I'll touch a card again.

  • It was a type he was by no means fond of, and he was quite aware that circumstances were scarcely likely to prepossess a man of that description in his favour.

  • The sure way to stir it up is to pat a shred of it with a piece of wood, though the man who tries it is scarcely likely to see what it does.

  • It's scarcely likely in your case, at least.

  • It is scarcely likely I should have forgotten that," he said.

  • You see the man who would wait for his enemy with only a knife in his hand while his life drained away from him, is scarcely likely to forget an injury.

  • It is, you see, scarcely likely that I shall ever spend a week like the past one again.

  • It was, he knew, scarcely likely he would be turned out for that reason, but he had not yet come down to asking a stranger's charity.

  • Still, he is scarcely likely to be the same one.

  • Devine is scarcely likely to show them me.

  • The remainder of the household would be scarcely likely to possess a knife of that description, so we will dismiss them also.

  • If some reporter or sensation hunter didn't throw it there, which is scarcely likely, I may be on the right track after all.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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