Usage examples for scarcely:

• I scarcely know what to call it. "Charlotte's Inheritance" – M. E. Braddon

• He had, however, scarcely got into a story before Harry appeared. "Left Guard Gilbert" – Ralph Henry Barbour

• That is scarcely our affair, is it? "The Yellow God An Idol of Africa" – H. Rider Haggard

• Scarcely had he uttered these words, when there appeared four men well armed. "The Autobiography of Madame Guyon" – Jeanne Marie Bouvier de La Motte Guyon