The common room hardly seemed as if the building were on fire.

He said no words, for they seemed hardly in place.

They hardly seemed to look at each other these days.

If you mean his private life he hardly seems to have had one.

To her, a house so large could hardly seem like home.

But in the last few years, it has hardly seemed to matter.

These days, they hardly seemed to see each other at all, and then there wasn't any time to really talk.

His voice hardly seemed to come from him as he talked.

It hardly seemed likely, but he could not be sure.

And since my wife died, there hardly ever seems to be any reason to drive.