oftentimesmainly US
Temperatures rarely rise above zero in winter.冬季气温很少高于零度。
In the summer the academy will exhibit several prints which are rarely seen.
She rarely ventured outside, except when she went to stock up on groceries at the corner shop.
She rarely spoke her mind out of fear of being ridiculed.她怕人嘲笑，几乎从来不说出自己的想法。
He hardly ever washes the dishes and he rarely, if ever, does any cleaning.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Rarely & infrequently
(every) now and then/againidiom
blue moon
day
episodic
ever and anon
few
fit
isolated
it's not every day (that)...idiom
like ships that pass in the nightidiom
occasion
occasional
odd
once-in-a-lifetime
one and doneidiom
one-off
one-shot
one-time
stop-go
ultra-rare

rarely | American Dictionary

rarely
adverb
us/ˈreər·li/
on very few occasions; almost never:
I rarely have time to read the newspaper.

Examples of rarely

rarely
Although it is rarely clearly stated, we implicitly have a predicate whose result tells us when an abstract value permits strictness optimisations.
These surgical procedures are rarely used today and have been replaced by additive hormonal therapies.
Both models suggest that innovation is rarely a successful strategy for parties out of power.
The large numbers of small parties have only rarely brought about a crisis of governability, however.
In the flood of recent literature, a controversy about a basic theoretical issue is perceptible, even though it is rarely addressed openly.
The cost of devices is such that, unlike drug samples, they can rarely be supplied free in clinical trials.
Although these processes are structured, the rules that govern them are rarely explicit; students typically learn by example, or trial and error.
Since her books were rarely taught or read during the twentieth century, her home lost its literary significations to all but a select few.
The side-effects of disulfiram are not commonly a problem, but may include peripheral neuropathy, confusional states and, rarely, psychosis.
All of these lesions, nonetheless, can be found rarely in hearts with otherwise standard complete transposition.
Only rarely when we come to face a decision problem are we presented with a full range of options right at the outset.
All other things being equal, parsimony and generality in an explanation are to be preferred; but all other things are rarely equal.
This capacity is rarely reflected in the price signals of international trade.
However, further testing using one of these measures, the mean square prediction error, shows that these forecast improvements are rarely significant at conventional significance levels.
The statements of people with dementia are rarely fully analysed or related to the service in question.
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