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But rarely was the music they played anchored in indigenous sounds of their homelands, as the groups eagerly explored musical hybrids.

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 Meanings and Examples of RARELY
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
rarely
 ad.  not often; in an unusual degree; exceptionally
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 Feodor 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)
16  This method is rarely used in modern laboratories.
17  She is old and rarely goes out.
18  Members of the Senate rarely attack each other personally.
19  Nowadays people are rarely shocked by the sex they see on television.
20  It is a society in which homosexuality is rarely avowed.
21  Most supporting bands tend to be youngsters, and rarely upstage the star.
22  Britain's House of Lords has been described as the best club in London and for many of the hereditary members who rarely attend debates, that's just what it is.
23  But rarely was the music they played anchored in indigenous sounds of their homelands, as the groups eagerly explored musical hybrids.
24  Kazakhstan, a vast territory, broke away from the former Soviet Union only ten years ago and is rarely in the international limelight.
25  Our elected leaders, movie stars and sports heroes sometimes engaged in nefarious activities but rarely were they headlined in the daily newspapers.
26  He says that media in China is largely pliant, meaning his company has rarely faced tough questions.
27  Indians rarely if ever use this condiment, which is so essential to the civilized white.
28  They speak reverently about this connection in private, but rarely talk about it to the press.
29  Monogamy is rare in most animal groups, but is common among birds.
30  With rare exceptions, he does not appear in public now.