Hardly ever
Sometimes and hardly ever are semantically related. in infrequently topic. In some cases you can use "Sometimes" instead an adverb phrase "Hardly ever".
Sometimes
Sometimes adverb - On some occasions.
Hardly ever and sometimes are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Hardly ever" instead an adverb "Sometimes".
Nearby Word: sometime
Mutual synonyms
Related pairs
- uncommonly and hardly ever
- uncommonly and sometimes
- little and hardly ever
- little and sometimes
- hardly and hardly ever
- hardly and sometimes
- seldom and hardly ever
- seldom and sometimes
- rarely and hardly ever
- rarely and sometimes
- infrequently and hardly ever
- infrequently and sometimes
- irregularly and hardly ever
- irregularly and sometimes
Both terms in one sentence
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While some characters are hardly ever heard of outside of Japan or sometimes forgotten.
Source: Loads and Loads of Characters - The book notes that sometimes a high war can turn into a low war, but hardly ever the other way around.
Source: Friendly War - The perfect walkthrough implied by the story means that Max hardly ever gets wounded, but instead dodges all that is thrown at him sometimes wondering aloud how did he managed to survive every subsequent encounter.
Source: Heal Thyself
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