RARELY in a Sentence

Learn RARELY from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
277 example sentences for RARELY, such as:
1. The police rarely shoot to kill.
2. They rarely spoke of their future life.
3. Teenagers and their parents rarely agree.
4. Pierre had of late rarely seen his wife alone.
5. Only rarely will she indulge in a glass of wine.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of RARELY
rare
 a.  (of meat) cooked a short time; still red inside
 a.  not widely distributed
raring
 n.  act of ascertaining or fixing the value or worth of
 n.  standing or position on a scale
Classic Sentence: (196 in 14 pages)
1  Their father returned to his division and his wife, and only rarely sent his sons large sheets of grey paper, scrawled over in a bold clerkly hand.
Fathers and Children By Ivan Turgenev
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
2  Anna Sergyevna went very rarely to the town, generally only on business, and even then she did not stay long.
Fathers and Children By Ivan Turgenev
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
3  But life was easy for her, though she was bored at times, and she went on passing day after day with deliberation, never in a hurry, placid, and only rarely disturbed.
Fathers and Children By Ivan Turgenev
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVI
4  In silence, only rarely exchanging a few insignificant words, our friends travelled as far as Fedot's.
Fathers and Children By Ivan Turgenev
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXII
5  Our romantic would rather go out of his mind--a thing, however, which very rarely happens--than take to open abuse, unless he had some other career in view; and he is never kicked out.
Notes from the Underground By Fyodor Dostoevsky
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: I
6  Princess Mary went back to her room with the sad, scared expression that rarely left her and which made her plain, sickly face yet plainer.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XXV
7  It is very difficult to tell the truth, and young people are rarely capable of it.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VII
8  Pierre had of late rarely seen his wife alone.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER VI
9  On the third day after Christmas Nicholas dined at home, a thing he had rarely done of late.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER XI
10  The general trend of the campaign was rarely spoken of, partly because nothing certain was known about it, partly because there was a vague feeling that in the main it was going badly.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER XV
11  When Pierre went up to them he noticed that Vera was being carried away by her self-satisfied talk, but that Prince Andrew seemed embarrassed, a thing that rarely happened with him.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER XXI
12  They rarely spoke of their future life.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER XXIV
13  She rarely made an exception and went out to pay visits, and then only to the most important persons in the town.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER VI
14  With others Balaga bargained, charging twenty-five rubles for a two hours' drive, and rarely drove himself, generally letting his young men do so.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER XVI
15  Connoisseurs of such matters declared that rarely had so many beautiful women been assembled in one place.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 9: CHAPTER III
Example Sentence: (81 in 6 pages)
1  Teenagers and their parents rarely agree.
2  One can habituate oneself to living alone, though rarely with any pleasure.
3  He rarely does anything more strenuous than changing the channels on the television.
4  She very rarely asserts her authority over the children.
5  It rarely happened that people in the town flocked to the theatre to see the new opera.
6  The phrase "yeah yeah yeah" can rarely have been delivered with so much unhinged passion.
7  Dark-skinned people rarely develop skin cancer.
8  Industry rarely thrives under government control.
9  Criminal libel is unlikely to occur other than rarely, but is available to define the limits of acceptable behaviour.
10  His executive position entitled him to certain courtesies rarely accorded others.
11  Legal questions rarely exist in the abstract; they are based on real cases.
12  Only rarely will she indulge in a glass of wine.
13  Great men are rarely isolated mountain-peaks; they are summits of ranges.
14  The police rarely shoot to kill.
15  The love of money and the love of learning rarely meet.