2 Verbs to Use for the Word scarce

"Hearkee now, good youth, hath there passed thee by ever a ribald in an escalloped hoodan unhallowed, long-legged, scurvy archer knave astride a fair white ass, my son?" "Truly," nodded Beltane, "we parted company scarce an hour since.

The crows and choughs that wing the midway air Show scarce so gross as beetles.

2 Verbs to Use for the Word  scarce