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Example sentences for "seldom seen"

  • Their skin is said to be of a copper color, but is seldom seen, as they consider it unhealthy to bathe.

  • Every woman goes to mass at seven in the morning, but a man is seldom seen to enter a church except on feast-day or to attend a funeral.

  • Most of the purchasing is done in this way, and a woman is seldom seen in a shop.

  • Phalaropes are not considered game birds, as they are too small and too seldom seen in large numbers to warrant pursuing them; so man should not be counted among their enemies.

  • The gray winter plumage, so different from the brightly colored spring plumage, is seldom seen in its completeness before the birds go south.

  • When with us it is seldom seen on the sandy flats or beaches, but frequents the wet, fresh and salt meadows, preferably where the grass has been cut and which after a rain are covered with shallow pools of water.

  • The sun is seldom seen, and one's clothes, even on a dry, rainless day, become saturated with moisture.

  • The Khan of Kelát very rarely leaves his palace, and is seldom seen abroad in the streets of Kelát except on Fridays, when he goes to the mosque on foot, attended by an escort armed to the teeth.

  • In summer the heat, dust, and flies are intolerable; in winter the sun is seldom seen.

  • The incense cedar's drooping branches shed the snow like a tent roof, and a limb broken or seriously deformed by weight of snow is seldom seen.

  • It is not so difficult further south where the true red oak is seldom seen.

  • It is usually of medium size and large trunks are seldom seen.

  • The consequence is that a crooked sugar pine trunk is seldom seen, though a considerable part of the tree's youth may have been spent under tons of snow.

  • On my word I've seldom seen a man more vastly moved than was Archibald, Marquis of Argile.

  • From some hidden spot in the centre of the field comes the loud, harsh cry of the corn-crake, that bird so often heard and so seldom seen.

  • It so closely mimics a broken branch during the day that it is seldom seen, though it is fairly common.

  • He is the best known of the genus, though even he is seldom seen.

  • It is a recent introduction, having been brought from the Pyrenees in 1820; it is seldom seen in flower gardens, where it certainly deserves to be.

  • It is seldom seen, though easy to grow, perfectly hardy, and perennial.

  • This is a charming kind, seldom seen and, perhaps, little known; the name would imply that it is a variety having equal traits of two other forms.

  • It is seldom seen now in well-kept gardens, though it should be, for it is really a lovely flower, showing from white to varied and rich light purples.

  • The hardy Colchicum or Autumnal Crocus is seldom seen in our gardens; nor do I care for its increase, even when planted in the grass.

  • Honeywort is seldom seen even in our oldest gardens; but it is a beautiful flower and a most hardy annual, and deserves to be reintroduced.

  • He is found in the northern parts both of the ancient and New Continent,[AB] but he is more common in America than in Europe, where he is seldom seen, except in Lithuania and Russia.

  • Though it prefers cold countries, it lives and multiplies in temperate ones, and is seldom seen but in forests and on mountains.

  • It is seldom seen in large packs, and hardly ever howls as the common wolf does.

  • But, oddly enough, this lemur is seldom seen in the trees.

  • The aye-aye is seldom seen in captivity, and when in that state it sleeps all day long.

  • It is seldom seen as far north as San Francisco, but is abundant from Santa Barbara south to Central America.

  • Another species of the same genus (=Dendrocygna elegans=) is a still more southern bird, seldom seen north of the state of Guerrero.

  • This bird is rare, and a specimen is seldom seen even in the most complete collections.

  • It is considered an extremely well-flavoured fish, though, on account of its small size, and the difficulty of catching a sufficient quantity, seldom seen at table.

  • It is seldom seen in England, but frequently visits North Britain, particularly the Orkney and Shetland Islands.

  • It is seldom seen except in the near vicinity of the water.

  • In settled localities, the fox will follow the trail because the walking is better, but in the wilderness where the track of a man is seldom seen, they not only refuse to follow the trail, but often will not even cross it.

  • The track of the beaver is seldom seen as they do not move about much in winter and on their trails their tracks are obliterated by the food which they drag into the water.

  • Seldom seen, but as free-growing and flowering as the Hawthorn.

  • The Little Stint breeds in the Arctic regions of Europe and West Siberia, and is a late migrant in spring, seldom seen in any numbers on our coasts before May.

  • Except during the three months or so of the breeding season, this Gull is seldom seen at its nesting sites.


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


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