Sentence examples similar to I merely sat from inspiring English sources

I feel no need for my desktop keyboard to be wireless since it merely sits in front of my computer.

Does it swim around rapidly when seeing you, or does it merely sit at the bottom and sulk?

Opposing defensive midfielders merely sat on him, choking his style.

He merely sat for the photographers and TV cameras, occasionally tilting his head at the to-do he had caused.

Although he scorned historians who merely sat in their studies, he also condemned petty histories of small corners of the world.

Results from Study 2 also indicated that (i) disparities in children's school attainment were associated with the type of their preschool experience; and (ii) children from the developmentally appropriate kindergarten program showed higher mathematics and literacy achievement at the end of Grade 1 than children who merely "sat in" Grade 1 classes or had no preschool experience.

Most of the other contestants merely sat and smiled, but she stood and waved and laughed and shouted and seemed to be having the time of her life.

He said that his wife merely sat on the board of the local aid agency and that only "a tiny fraction" of the food he transported was designated for that aid agency.

The boy did not cry out or weep but merely sat silent in this tortured posture until his failure to appear for breakfast brought his father upstairs to the bedroom's door.

She merely sat shiva for every person who wronged her children — not out of mourning but as a ceremonial acknowledgment of the fact that the person had ceased to exist.

But while we merely sat and waited for the Four Horsemen of the Hacky Apocalypse to gallop through our party and slaughter us like stuck pigs while we waited in the bathroom line, others were less passive.