"Christy..." She heard him call her name, but it scarcely penetrated the turmoil of her thoughts.

He thought himself in a sepulchre, into which a ray of sunlight in pity scarcely penetrated.

Scout's voice rattled on, scarcely penetrating the edge of Bruce's thoughts.

The lights of the Cine Fantastico sign scarcely penetrated the gloom.

And so--" The words scarcely penetrated, though all the sense strained through, somehow.

They slept in the open at night, the winds scarcely penetrating their long fur.

By day, the eight Victorian nouses were enveloped in shade, sunlight scarcely penetrating the branches of the trees.

The light scarcely penetrated the deep niches of the aisles of the sacred building.

The snow scarcely penetrated the branches.

Within was a thick, upholstered silence that even the howl of the engines scarcely penetrated.