adverb
definition
Not occurring at a regular interval; seldom; not often.
example
Rarely do you ever find an eagle this far up the river.
definition
Unusually well; excellently.
definition
To a rare degree; very.
Examples of rarely in a Sentence
She rarely left the house and lived in the library.
He was rarely there anyway.
Makeup was something she rarely wore, but she did have some.
He rarely allowed himself that privilege.
Sarah rarely fed on humans anymore.
They rarely spoke of their future life.
She knew what she liked, and it rarely had anything to do with what was in style.
He never thought twice about walking into danger and rarely cared if he survived or not.
She rarely smiles; indeed, I have seen her smile only once or twice since I came.
Nobody drove through the streets and footsteps were rarely heard.
Between finals and her job at the hospital, Adrienne rarely had time to think about it much, though.
His wards rarely rose before mid-morning.
Her bank account was rarely over two hundred.
Rarely do I get to see the Future unfold in person.
He rarely turned down the offer of no-strings-attached sex, especially when his partner was so good at it.
The buckeye does not grow in New England, and the mockingbird is rarely heard here.
He rarely had dreams, and when he did, they were nice dreams of feeding on some beautiful woman.
On the third day after Christmas Nicholas dined at home, a thing he had rarely done of late.
She rarely misuses or omits one in conversation.
In fact, he rarely looked her in the eye, as if she was a reminder of something he didn't want to recall.
It is very difficult to tell the truth, and young people are rarely capable of it.
With others Balaga bargained, charging twenty-five rubles for a two hours' drive, and rarely drove himself, generally letting his young men do so.
Landolt and others, made it at first appear that the change in weight, if there is any, consequent on a chemical change can rarely exceed one-millionth of the weight of the reacting substances, and that it must often be much less.
A little flock of these titmice came daily to pick a dinner out of my woodpile, or the crumbs at my door, with faint flitting lisping notes, like the tinkling of icicles in the grass, or else with sprightly day day day, or more rarely, in spring-like days, a wiry summery phe-be from the woodside.
Damian was rarely indoors during the day, and she hoped he wasn't in his room when she knocked.
The old fire very rarely kindled in her face now.
If he had it his way, the woman would rarely leave his side.
He rarely bought anything except jeans and causal shirts off the rack.
Of course, she'd rarely been there in daylight.
Angleworms are rarely to be met with in these parts, where the soil was never fattened with manure; the race is nearly extinct.
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.
She rarely made an exception and went out to pay visits, and then only to the most important persons in the town.
Talk was rarely heard in the ranks, and it ceased altogether every time the thud of a successful shot and the cry of "stretchers!" was heard.
He was rarely sick, and even then it was hard to get him to go to bed.
Jonathan rarely asked for anything and the idea of having someone in the house playing music was appealing.
The chances were, he rarely got into town at all.
No girls ever visit my lab, and Kris rarely lets me leave.
It seemed that they rarely saw him anymore and those boys weren't the best influence.
But on account of experimental errors in weighing and measuring, and through loss of material in the transfer of substances from one vessel to another, such analyses are rarely trustworthy to more than one part in about Soo; so that small changes in weight consequent on the chemical change could not with certainty be proved or disproved.
When she was not occupied, she wandered restlessly about the house, making strange though rarely unpleasant sounds.
I have rarely met a fellowman on such promising ground--it was so simple and sincere and so true all that he said.
The prince, who generally kept very strictly to social distinctions and rarely admitted even important government officials to his table, had unexpectedly selected Michael Ivanovich (who always went into a corner to blow his nose on his checked handkerchief) to illustrate the theory that all men are equals, and had more than once impressed on his daughter that Michael Ivanovich was "not a whit worse than you or I."
Rarely had Natasha experienced so joyful a feeling as now, sitting in the carriage beside the countess and gazing at the slowly receding walls of forsaken, agitated Moscow.
Left alone, she rarely did that.
She.d rarely seen him—and never touched him—since arriving a few weeks ago.
She rarely combed her hair, owned no more than three or four shapeless dresses, which appeared in all seasons, most of which were stained and wrinkled.
I rarely thought about her until that point when I began dreaming about her every night.
It was her remaining guard, Ledden, whose watchful gaze had rarely left the enemy's men outside the door.
He was the default for most of the decisions she felt uncomfortable about making, but those decisions rarely included the children.
He rarely thought of the man he didn't remember, but since the stranger's visit, Xander wasn't able to get his father out of his mind.