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seldom adverb

(a)rar, (a)rareori;

(prov.) seldom seen, soon forgotten ochii care nu se văd se uită.

 Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze: 

I don't know how it was; it seldom looked well by candle-light.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

She seldom saw him: never alone.

(Mansfield Park, de Jane Austen)

But her mother held her back, saying, with a look she seldom wore...

(Little Women, de Louisa May Alcott)

I feel tired often, sleepy sometimes, but seldom sad.

(Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë)

She seldom listened to anybody for more than half a minute, and never attended to Mary at all.

(Pride and Prejudice, de Jane Austen)

I had seldom heard my friend speak with such intensity of feeling.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Harriet was very seldom mentioned between them.

(Emma, de Jane Austen)

He still came to me from time to time when he desired a companion in his investigation, but these occasions grew more and more seldom, until I find that in the year 1890 there were only three cases of which I retain any record.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Seldom; rarely; almost never.

(Hardly Ever, NCI Thesaurus)

He very seldom spoke to her, and never to me.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

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