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297 example sentences for MERELY, such as:
1. Such persons she merely roughhews.
2. Bazarov merely shrugged his shoulders.
3. Life is merely a drop of nectar on the lotus leaf.
4. The conference merely pointed up divisions in the party.
5. The brain accounts for merely three per cent of body weight.
2. Bazarov merely shrugged his shoulders.
3. Life is merely a drop of nectar on the lotus leaf.
4. The conference merely pointed up divisions in the party.
5. The brain accounts for merely three per cent of body weight.
Search Quotes from Classic Book Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen |
Meanings and Examples of MERELY
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merely
ad. and nothing more
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1 Naturally, they were not persons of much note, but merely what folk call characters of secondary, or even of tertiary, importance.
2 Everything in her is simple, and she says just what she thinks, and laughs merely when she feels inclined.
3 Such persons she merely roughhews.
4 Venerable sir, would that I could pay you not merely forty kopecks, but five hundred roubles.
5 Chichikov perceived that the officials' motive was merely one of curiosity, as often happens when young tchinovniks desire to cut a more important and imposing figure than is rightfully theirs.
6 That is to say, it served merely to divide up his time, and enable him the more to value his hours of leisure.
7 Then he felt constrained to intimate that with all that he had nothing to do, seeing that his business was merely to acquire a few souls, and thereafter to have their purchase confirmed.
8 You would merely need to be fond of work: otherwise you would effect nothing.
9 The system employed was a good one: he did not steal, he merely used.
10 Yet even this contretemps did not upset him; he merely called the offending bottle a fool, and then debated whom first he should visit in his attractive guise.
11 Bazarov's thin lips moved just perceptibly, though he made no reply, but merely took off his cap.
12 I have prescribed him centaury and St. John's wort, ordered him to eat carrots, given him soda; but all that's merely palliative measures; we want some more decided treatment.
13 Bazarov merely shrugged his shoulders.
14 But Vassily Ivanovitch, without turning round, merely waved his hand and was gone.
15 It was the exercise of my skill that carried me away; yet it was not merely sport.
Example Sentence: (87 in 6 pages)
1 She actually seemed pleased to see him: most of her visitors she merely tolerated.
2 He's merely a boy - you can't expect him to understand.
3 Ordinary people merely think how they shall spend their time ; a man of talent tries to use it.
4 This latest tragedy merely confirms my view that the law must be tightened.
5 I don't believe it; it's merely hearsay.
6 The brain accounts for merely three per cent of body weight.
7 We can't go into all the details of that case now, I merely mention it in passing.
8 Close collaboration between the Bank and the Fund is not merely desirable, it is essential.
9 The player insists that he merely took a cold remedy and not a banned substance.
10 In justification of his conduct, he pleaded that he was merely obeying orders.
11 The conference merely pointed up divisions in the party.
12 The inevitable conflict was merely postponed till the next meeting.
13 Men do not desire merely to be rich, but to be richer than other men.
14 Life is merely a drop of nectar on the lotus leaf.
15 I merely looked at the chocolate; I did not eat it.