How to use "hardly" in a sentence

In the bright mist that clouded his vision, Marius could hardly see the features of the sweet face that had lit his life for six months and had then disappeared, filling his life with darkness

He replied, in a voice so low that she could hardly hear it, 'I don't understand what you mean.'

Helen Mainway chattered excitedly about the spectacular special effects, and Elliot Stryker had an endless supply of compliments as well as some astute observations about the technical aspects of the production, and Charlie Mainway poured a third bottle of Dom PS 233; rignon, and the house lights came up, and the audience reluctantly began to leave, and Tina hardly had a chance to sip her champagne because of all the people who stopped by the table to congratulate her.

The mirror revealed a person whom she hardly recognized: a haggard, bloodless, sunken-eyed fright.

He'd hardly begun to live

and it's apparently a personal loss to him, so it can hardly be a stranger."

"We hardly know each other," she said.

Tina could hardly recognize his weary, cracking voice.

"You hardly weigh a thing, kid

It's so mysterious, isn't it, the way she suddenly rented a house here, and hardly ever goes outside it? It's like a detective story

And I wondered why he hardly noticed me

Because it is hardly one seventh of the size of Earth, it cooled more quickly to the temperature at which life could begin

For a minute he hardly realized what this meant, and although the heat was great, he climbed down into the pit to see the cylinder more closely

Even then he hardly understood what was happening, until he heard another sound and saw the black mark jump forwards a little

We both sat in complete silence, so we could hardly hear each other breathing

Our situation was so strange and unbelievable that for three or four hours, until the dawn came, we hardly moved

However, at first I hardly noticed the pit and the cylinder, because of the strange shining machine that I saw working there, and the odd creatures that were crawling slowly and painfully across the earth near it.

People who have never seen these things can hardly understand how alive they looked.

I shook violently and could hardly stand straight

I stared around, hardly believing my eyes

I remembered how I could not concentrate that morning, hardly a month before, and how I had stopped work to get my newspaper from the newsboy