adjective
adverb
Examples of seldom in a Sentence
The same people seldom show up twice.
He seldom offered an opinion, much less began a conversation.
Lisa had no trouble understanding why she seldom had company.
Her manuscripts seldom contain typographical errors when she hands them to Miss Sullivan to read.
I beg to differ, but I am seldom consulted when such decisions are made.
He retired to the country and was seldom present at the council.
This young man, of whom I spoke to you last summer, is so noble-minded and full of that real youthfulness which one seldom finds nowadays among our old men of twenty and, particularly, he is so frank and has so much heart.
His hospitality was great, almost to a fault, and he seldom came home without bringing a guest.
That was Howie to a tee; totally dispassionate and prosaic, ready to join the gang and do someone else's bidding but seldom a decision maker.
But war is seldom the answer.
Martha Washington understood my signs, and I seldom had any difficulty in making her do just as I wished.
It was a weekly summer ritual for one or the other, but seldom both; they enjoyed stocking up on local-grown produce.
The winds are variable and seldom violent, except along the coast during the sub-tropical storms of late summer and early autumn.
Once in a while they did things together socially, usually to fulfill mandated coupling at necessary functions and seldom for the entertainment of either.
Seldom will one decide that war with a friend's nation is the only recourse.
In America it seldom attains the large size it often acquires in England, and it is there of less rapid growth than the prevailing form of the western plains; the name of "cotton-wood" is locally given to other species.
They seldom penetrate the living cells, though they do so in a few cases.
A larger soul I think hath seldom dwelt in a house of clay than his was.
This is seldom discussed but very real.
Usually I enjoy seeing the gentle flakes and they cause me little aggravation with their accumulation as I seldom travel more than a block or two when I secure provisions.
On the mainland, and more especially on the eastern slope, the temperature is cooler, the thermometer seldom rising above 93° in the shade, and falling at night below 70°.
The remission or abatement lasts generally throughout the morning; and about noon there is an exacerbation, seldom ushered in by chills, which continues till the early morning following, when it remits or abates as before.
While the pair was a definite annoyance to the Parkside police, the two were seldom a serious problem...
The study of the differentiation of protoplasm was at that time seldom undertaken, and no particular attention was paid either to fixing it, to enable staining methods to be accurately applied to it, or to studying the action of chemical reagents upon it.
Denisov evidently tried to expose Rostov to danger as seldom as possible, and after an action greeted his safe return with evident joy.
In India elephants seldom breed in captivity, though they do so more frequently in Burma and Siam; the domesticated stock is therefore replenished by fresh captures.
The most civilized of this people are seldom seen even by the Sakai.
Why did he have to wait until her figure started to fall apart before he complained about seldom seeing her in a dress?
The reproductive organs of Rhabdopleura have but seldom been observed.
Let's talk a moment about patriotism and nationalism, words frequently used but seldom clearly defined.
For a whole evening she will sit at the table writing whatever comes into her busy brain; and I seldom find any difficulty in reading what she has written.
He seldom laughed, but when he did he abandoned himself entirely to his laughter, and after such a laugh she always felt nearer to him.
A true mushroom is never large in size; its cap very seldom exceeds 4, at most 5 inches.
The only effect of this incident on Tikhon was that after being wounded he seldom brought in prisoners.
A family or group of families had the same hunting-ground, which was seldom changed, and descended through the males.
Both these oaks grow well in British plantations, where their bright autumn foliage, though seldom so decided in tint as in their native woods, gives them a certain picturesque value.
The nest of the siskin is very like that of the goldfinch, but seldom so neatly built; the eggs, except in their smaller size, much resemble those of the greenfinch.
The serfs, whose wrongs seldom attracted notice in an age indifferent to the claims of common humanity, found a friend in this severe monarch, and he protected even the despised and persecuted Jews.
But even their orders, like Napoleon's, were seldom carried out, and then but partially.
He had heard that the Rostovs were at Kostroma but the thought of Natasha seldom occurred to him.
Many large and fierce bears roam in the Valley of Voe, and when they can catch any of us they eat us up; but as they cannot see us, we seldom get caught.
When Pierre had gone and the members of the household met together, they began to express their opinions of him as people always do after a new acquaintance has left, but as seldom happens, no one said anything but what was good of him.
Throughout Japan, China, Siam, and the Malay countries, normal long-tailed cats are indeed seldom seen.
The reason that we do not observe this process in ordinary children is, because we seldom observe them at all, and because they are fed from so many sources that the memories are confused and mutually destructive.
And when he writes in eight parts for a double chorus the two groups are seldom identioal.
Moreover, while a Russian man, far away from home among Siberians, readily marries a native, the Russian woman seldom does the like.
Before astronomical telescopes were mounted parallactically, the measurement of position angles was seldom attempted.
No ancient writer ascribes them to him, and he seldom, if ever, executed works in marble.
Little is known about him, and he is seldom mentioned.
In 1781 Dohm pointed to the fact that a Jewish father could seldom hope to enjoy the happiness of living with his children.