They are very weak now; some of them can hardly stand.
The pain is so bad I can hardly stand it.
There was times she'd been so nice to him he could hardly stand it.
The big dog was so excited he could hardly stand still.
There had been a time, not long ago, when his biological son could hardly stand to be in the same room with him.
His feet hurt so that he could hardly stand it.
Even, apparently, when he was making them run until they could hardly stand.
I can hardly stand to go into a museum anymore.
He could hardly stand, and held on to the back of a chair, as she entered the room.
"I can't hardly stand to think about how she was killed."