Below you will find example sentences with "hardly ever". The examples show how this phrase is used in natural context and which words often surround it.
Hardly Ever in a sentence
Corpus data
- Displayed example sentences: 20
- Discovered as a combination around: hardly
- Corpus frequency in the collocation scan: 8
- Phrase length: 2 words
- Average sentence length: 20.7 words
Sentence profile
- Phrase position: 6 start, 14 middle, 0 end
- Sentence types: 19 statements, 0 questions, 1 exclamations
Corpus analysis
- The phrase "hardly ever" has 2 words and usually appears in the middle in these examples. The average sentence has 20.7 words and is mostly made up of statements.
- Around this phrase, patterns and context words such as ages and hardly ever pick up, airport is hardly ever a trivial, people, person and different stand out.
- In the phrase index, this combination connects with ever recorded, ever seen, first ever and hardly surprising, linking the page to nearby combinations.
Example types with hardly ever
This selection groups the examples by length and sentence type, making usage of the full phrase easier to scan:
I hardly ever send letters anymore. (6 words)
In fact, I hardly ever use it. (7 words)
They were hardly ever the answers we wanted, but still! (10 words)
Each battlefield is split into different areas populated by different enemies (you hardly ever fight just one person) and Luffy and his crew have both ranged and close-up special attacks that either focus on a single enemy or everyone in an area. (43 words)
AMD appears to be doing something that hardly ever happens by keeping the prices lower than they were at the launch of Zen 4. However, that doesn't mean that buying the new processors will save you money. (38 words)
Both herself and Ms Martin agreed that women are hardly ever thanked, let alone recognised, for the work they do every day and there should be more recognition and appreciation across the wider community. (34 words)
They were hardly ever the answers we wanted, but still! (10 words)
Example sentences (20)
These individuals hardly ever used in the physical presence of other people, and they hardly ever had in-person sex with other people.
Both herself and Ms Martin agreed that women are hardly ever thanked, let alone recognised, for the work they do every day and there should be more recognition and appreciation across the wider community.
Each battlefield is split into different areas populated by different enemies (you hardly ever fight just one person) and Luffy and his crew have both ranged and close-up special attacks that either focus on a single enemy or everyone in an area.
He is not a huge turner of the ball either, and hardly ever tries to outfox the batters like Chahal does with wide of the off-stump bowling.
However, despite having one of the most diverse casts, the franchise hardly ever makes a big deal out of it.
In fact, I hardly ever use it.
Naruto, who hardly ever knew real love in his life, was ready to accept Hinata with open arms once he figured out her true feelings.
They were hardly ever the answers we wanted, but still!
AMD appears to be doing something that hardly ever happens by keeping the prices lower than they were at the launch of Zen 4. However, that doesn't mean that buying the new processors will save you money.
I hardly ever send letters anymore.
In most sports hitting the bottom is hardly ever a good thing.
Patti chimed in saying her family hardly ever went out to eat, but when they did it was Arthur Teachers Fish n’ Chips.
She takes everything in her stride, hardly ever reacts to anything, and practically owns every scene she appears in.
When she went door-to-door, the bills hardly ever came up.
Anywhere with my wife Catherine, as we hardly ever travel together and she is always so calm and fun.
Don’t get me wrong, I love The IIconics, but we hardly ever got to see them wrestle with the belts.
He’s hardly ever out of position and possesses rare makeup speed when he is caught in a bind.
If you've been loving digital storefronts for ages and hardly ever pick up a disk nowadays, then the Digital Edition would make sense.
IN Guyana, a trip to the airport is hardly ever a trivial affair.
In season 6, Bonnie suddenly found a long-lost sister who had hardly ever been mentioned before that.