fresh vegetables were scarce during the drought.
had scarcely rung the bell when the door flew open.
he hardly ever goes fishing.
he was scarce sixteen years old.
I can hardly hear what she is saying.
she barely seemed to notice him.
they scarcely ever used the emergency generator.
we hardly knew them.
we were so far back in the theater, we could barely read the subtitles.
would have scarce arrived before she would have found some excuse to leave.