hardly
What is the Definition of hardly?
Adverb:
- only a very short time before
- almost not
- slowly and with difficulty
How can I use hardly in a sentence?
According to the large clock over the arrivals board, he had ten minutes left to get on the train to Hogwarts and he had no idea how to do it; he was stranded in the middle of a station with a trunk he could hardly lift, a pocket full of wizard money, and a large owl.
Perhaps it was because he was now so busy, what with Quidditch practice three evenings a week on top of all his homework, but Harry could hardly believe it when he realized that he would already been at Hogwarts two months.
Filch must have hurried off to look for them somewhere else, because they did not see him anywhere, but they hardly cared — all they wanted to do was put as much space as possible between them and that monster.
He pulled open the next door, both of them hardly daring to look at what came next - but there was nothing very frightening in here, just a table with seven differently shaped bottles standing on it in a line.
Although owls normally hunt at night and are hardly ever seen in daylight, there have been hundreds of sightings of these birds flying in every direction since sunrise.