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Example sentences for "rarely"

Lexicographically close words:
rarefaction; rarefactions; rarefied; rarefy; rarefying; rarement; rareness; rarer; rares; rarest
  1. The independent personal pronoun rarely makes an element of verbal form, as in speaking it is generally worn down to an affix.

  2. Their decisions are rarely in conformity with justice or humanity.

  3. House-servants were rarely trusted, or only when they had been carefully sounded by the chief leaders.

  4. Bitter experience had long since taught us that the Rebels rarely threatened in vain.

  5. It was believed that they rarely failed to find a prisoner's tracks, and still more rarely ran off upon a Rebel's.

  6. Almost at the same instant rose that shrill, piercing Rebel yell, which one who has once heard it rarely forgets, and this was followed by a crashing volley from apparently a regiment of rifles.

  7. These favorite employments of reading, drawing and needle work, formed the recreation of a quiet life, in the home which Miss Otis rarely quitted.

  8. Her playful wit and repartee, rendered piquant by her powers of sarcasm, were rarely equalled.

  9. This is rarely an easy matter, especially in towns where the aspect of the building is out of the architect's hands.

  10. They wander like a cursed people from place to place, not stopping at all or rarely in one place longer than thirty days; they live in tents like the Arabs, a little oblong black tent.

  11. Chemically impure and mechanically imperfect, it was rarely crude in tint or even in texture.

  12. In the acute form of the disease recovery rarely if ever occurs, and the case generally terminates fatally in a period varying from two or three days to as many weeks.

  13. The reason for this high cost is to be found partly in the fact that the yield of optically perfect glass even in large and successful meltings rarely exceeds 20% of the total weight of glass melted.

  14. The plant rarely flowers and the fruit is unknown.

  15. Tyrants rarely deny to rich men leave to be self-indulgent.

  16. Rarely do we read an encyclopedia article for appreciation.

  17. For days at a time he rarely spoke and went about as one in a dream, and Oma said to Wang and to others who came, "The spell of Odin is on him," and they began to look on Ang with awe and wonder.

  18. A standing screen of wooden panels is better than a folding screen, for the folding screen is rarely well-built, and will be blown down by the draft of the open door.

  19. There is rarely a room that would not be improved by built-in shelves and inset mirrors.

  20. How rarely does one find the lights in the right place in our over-magnificent hotels and residences!

  21. The old furniture is rarely seen outside of museums nowadays, but it has been an inspiration to modern decorators who are seeking ideas for simple and charming furniture.

  22. Jungle fowl are rarely seen at Rome, and then usually in cages.

  23. As the gentlemen rode on horseback, and the ladies upon pillions, on all but the great epochs of their lives, this wheeled mammoth was rarely drawn out of its cavern, the coach-house.

  24. In adopting a direct or a circuitous line of way innumerable predilections interfered, and parishes not rarely indulged in acrimonious controversies, especially when the time came for walking the boundaries.

  25. They gave me such minute accounts of their disgraceful defeats that I recognized in this woman a type of those perfectly cold-blooded coquettes who are--to the credit of the sex be it said--but rarely met with.

  26. Felix threw himself on his couch again, and lay smoking, rarely throwing in a word, as he watched every movement of the other's hand.

  27. He showed constantly how happy the devoted care of his friends made him, and held the hand of his "Daedalus" tightly clasped in his own during the whole of the visit, with a tenderness such as he rarely exhibited before others.

  28. A rare opportunity came and she did that which is rarely done.

  29. Musicians rarely give their best exhibition when singing or performing in a hostile atmosphere.

  30. Human existence is rarely a great prairie stretching monotonously onward to the great river.

  31. We are, however, satisfied that he starved through it all, that he rarely had a penny in his pocket.

  32. It is extraordinary how little we know of Borrow during that fourteen years' sojourn in London; how rarely we meet him in the literary memoirs of this period.

  33. Rarely indeed can the struggling author endure to be ignored by the radiantly successful one.

  34. Rarely in our criminal jurisprudence has a murder trial excited more interest than that of John Thurtell for the murder of Weare--the Gill's Hill Murder, as it was called.

  35. Let me recall the eulogy on 'Gronwy' Owen, and here it may be said that Borrow rarely got his spelling correct of the proper names of his various literary heroes, in the various Norse and Celtic tongues in which he delighted.

  36. The quarrels of authors are frequently amusing but rarely edifying, and this hatred of Bowring that possessed the soul of poor Borrow in his later years is of the same texture as the rest.

  37. Which is only to say that it is rarely given to contemporary critics to judge accurately of the great work that comes to them amid a mass that is not great.

  38. But for my entreaties she would have it put away, and she now rarely enters the room.

  39. Blinded by the charms of an artful and deceitful woman, I threw away such a chance as rarely has fallen to the lot of man; but when I recovered my senses, I comprehended what I had lost.

  40. So they all set off, with the exception of Lady Barfleur, who rarely got beyond the garden.

  41. Rarely did Ned's manly visage exhibit such grief as it wore on this sad occasion.

  42. Indeed, I rarely come here, unless we have company.

  43. This will account for the fact that if in some cases his works betray a want of inspiration, yet they rarely smell of lamp oil, or seem unduly laboured.

  44. As a matter of fact he now rarely touches the instrument, and a paragraph that recently appeared in a paper to the effect that he was in the habit of practising all day long, caused him to indulge in a prolonged fit of merriment.

  45. The music rarely approaches the grandeur and depth of expression requisite for an adequate interpretation of such a theme.

  46. Berlioz states that the score of his "Faust" was composed by him with an amount of facility that he rarely experienced in connection with his other works.

  47. The fact is, the history of the Drama shows that only rarely does even a group of people for a brief time care more for plays of characterization and dialogue than for plays of action.

  48. He is rarely non-plussed, and while quick and pointed in his remarks, is yet not ill-natured with them.

  49. In any case, rarely today does an author need to use all or many of these stage divisions of an older day.

  50. Every hearer knows that people do not really, when part of a mob, say absolutely the same thing, and rarely speak in perfect unison.

  51. Monsieur's conversation rarely extends to more than two sentences to any one.

  52. I've got my work done rarely with you for a nurse.

  53. I am rarely free from pain, and I know that I shall never be healthy and strong again.

  54. When people do wrong, the consequences are rarely confined to themselves, they extend to the innocent.

  55. And then Mr. Hunter shut himself in the room, and burst into heavy tears, such as are rarely shed by man.

  56. Altar-pieces were rarely wanted, and there were no more legends of saints to be painted upon the walls of churches.

  57. That required money, and hitherto even princes had rarely been rich.

  58. The graves are rarely more than three feet deep.

  59. It rarely attacks man, but when provoked is very ferocious, and as its strength is very great, it is a foe not to be despised.

  60. But the most of them are older than ethical systems; and the decision of their majorities is rarely moral.

  61. The greater number of people hurrying by each other in a dense press rarely observe faces: only the disinterested idler has time for that.

  62. About Kyoto this semi is common: it is rarely heard in Tokyo.

  63. Oh, of course accidents have happened, but much more rarely than most people think.

  64. This surprised the other two, for Kitty was usually mild and gentle, and rarely gave way to such speech as this.

  65. He had rarely brought them to visit their grandparents, because it always made his mother nervous and irritable.

  66. They were revived somewhat after the restoration, but they are rarely seen nowadays except among children.

  67. It is woeful to watch a child mar its life but forcible intervention rarely serves to avert the calamity.

  68. They are cultured, refined people, interesting to know, but strangers coming here rarely make their acquaintance.

  69. Had she only known it, that impulsive outburst aroused a friendly interest in her that the reserved man rarely felt in struggling young artists, and he bought all the sketches she had with her.

  70. The seas between the former island and the other land-masses referred to are rarely entirely frozen over.

  71. It offers a parallel to the Arctic Hare in the fact that in some countries, such as Ireland, it only rarely turns white in winter.

  72. Those species of snails and slugs which lead an underground existence, rarely venturing above ground, such as Testacella and Coecilianella, would have even less chance of being accidentally carried to some distant island.


  73. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "rarely" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    extra; extremely; hardly; incredibly; infrequently; little; rarely; scarcely; seldom; sparsely; uncommon; uncommonly; unusual; unusually


    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    rarely more; rarely seen; rarely used; rarely white