noun
definition
A scarce or uncommon item.
adjective
Examples of rare in a Sentence
You have a rare ability among our kind.
He let a rare smile cross his face.
The table was decorated with rare and beautiful plants and flowers.
She was also able to turn objects into something else, a rare talent.
They are rare in the history of the world.
They shared a rare bond, and felt blessed to have each other.
A'Ran let a rare, mirthless smile cross his features.
But with rare exceptions, we simply don't train our brains to do this particular task.
The fascination little visitors were a rare in our neck of the woods.
It was on the whole a rare amusement, which, continued too long, might have become a dissipation.
It is a rare privilege to watch the birth, growth, and first feeble struggles of a living mind; this privilege is mine; and moreover, it is given me to rouse and guide this bright intelligence.
He shifted in his seat and rubbed his mouth, a rare sign of his nervousness.
The man who has actually paid for his farm with labor on it is so rare that every neighbor can point to him.
Something always drew him toward those richer and more powerful than himself and he had rare skill in seizing the most opportune moment for making use of people.
The article listed past instances of use, admitting on rare occasions the psychic proved helpful to police investigations.
Dean questioned the rare break between characters and the near absence of punctuation.
A very fine freshwater fish is the Murray cod, which sometimes weighs Too lb; and the golden perch, found in the same river, has rare beauty of colour.
Thenceforward, with rare intervals, the two kingdoms remained united.
It was a rare event for Fred to speak of his past, especially when it sounded like a hint of the truth.
This conception of the Sabbath, however, necessarily underwent an important modification when the local sanctuaries were abolished under the "Deuteronomic" reform, and those sacrificial rites and feasts which in Hosea's time formed the essence of every act of religion were limited to the central altar, which most men could visit only at rare intervals.
Beckerite, a rare amber in earthy-brown nodules, almost opaque, said to be related in properties to gutta-percha.
Cases of discipline are now comparatively rare, and, when they do occur, are not characterized by the bigoted severity which prevailed in former times and was rightly denounced as unchristian.
The actual building dates from the end of the 17th and the beginning of the 18th century, and contains a fine library with a collection of rare manuscripts and incunabula; near it is the small and old town of Tepl (pop. 2789).
It contains, besides a fine library, a collection of the presents he received during his long career; numerous autographs, and other historical relics, a collection of rare coins, armour, portraits and various minerals.
The extraction (as is the case with all the rare earths) is a matter of great difficulty.
The direct type of budding is rare, but is seen in Cunina and Millepora.
The presence of tellurium in native sulphur is rare, but is known in certain specimens from Japan.
His reputation in the parliament of 1880-1886 was that of a dilettante, who allied himself with the three politicians already named from a feeling of irresponsibility rather than of earnest purpose; he was regarded as one who, on the rare occasions when he spoke, was more desirous to impart an academic quality to his speeches than to make any solid contribution to public questions.
Sweden has abundant, rich and very pure iron ores, but her lack of coal has restricted her iron manufacture chiefly to the very purest and best classes of iron and steel, in making which her thrifty and intelligent people have developed very rare skill.
Kris slid two rare green life crystals across the table, the common form of payment for an assassination not ordered by Death herself.
The Ancients are very rare.
Your blood is rare.
The work in question, which is rare, was printed at Paris, and has the date 1636 on the title-page, but the royal privilege which secured it to the author is dated in October 1635, and it may have been written several years earlier.
Classical and modern chamber-music in the sonata style consists mainly of string-quartets for 2 violins, viola and violoncello; string-trios (rare, because very difficult to write sonorously); pianoforte-trios (pianoforte, violin and violoncello); pianoforte-quartets (pianoforte with string-trio); pianoforte-quintets (pianoforte with string-quartet); string-quintets (with 2 violas, very rarely with 2 violoncellos), and (in two important cases by Brahms) stringsextets.
In Lombardy, besides the mezzadria, the lease is common, but the ierzieria is rare.
The dissensions which broke out among them within a few months of the accession of their party to power never afterwards disappeared, except at rare moments when it became necessary to unite in preventing the return of the Conservatives.
Actual or projected routes for telegraph cables across the deep sea have also been sounded with extreme accuracy in many cases; but beyond these lines of sounding the vast spaces of the ocean remain unplumbed save for the rare researches of scientific expeditions, such as those of the " Challenger," the " Valdivia," the " Albatross " and the " Scotia."
The antelopes include the beisa oryx, fairly common and widely distributed; the greater and lesser kudu (the greater kudu is not found on the Ogaden plateau); the Somali hartebeest (Bubalis Swaynei), found only in the Haud and Ogo districts; waterbuck, rare except along the Webi Shebeli and the Nogal; the dol or Somali bushbuck; the dibatag or Clarke's gazelle; the giraffe-like gerenuk or Waller's gazelle, very common; the aoul or Soemmering's gazelle, widely distributed; the dero (Gazella Speki); and the small dikdik or sakaro antelope, found in almost every thicket.
Ostriches are found in the open plains; the rivers swarm with crocodiles, but hippopotami are rare.
And though Bede makes no pretensions to originality, least of all in his theological works, freely taking what he needed, and (what is very rare in medieval writers) acknowledging what he took, "out of the works of the venerable Fathers," still everything he wrote is informed and impressed with his own special character and temper.
While still a boy, he showed promise of rare literary gifts, and distinguished himself by his facility in the acquisition of knowledge.
When he had attained the age of eighteen or nineteen years, Cosimo received him into his household, and determined to make use of his rare disposition for scholarship in the development of a long-cherished project.
The plan was good; and with the rare instinct for character which distinguished him, he made choice of the right man for his purpose in the young Marsilio.
He had seen the young prince grow up in the palace of the Via Larga, and had helped in the development of his rare intellect.
Table-tombs and arcosolia are by no means rare in the corridors of the catacombs, but they belong more generally to the cubicula, or family vaults, of which we now proceed to speak.
It is, however, less oppressive, as cool breezes prevail and damp is comparatively rare.
These is much woodland, but meadows and pastures are rare.
It is scarcer at Defenneh (29) and rare at Memphis (44).
Briggs's tract of 1617 is extremely rare, and has generally been ignored or incorrectly described.
The sexes are always separate, the males being of very rare occurrence in most cases.