Sentence examples for I were merely from inspiring English sources

Paul and I were merely dead weight, what veteran bobsledders call sandbags.

Pregnancies, I felt, were the result of passion and experience; I was too tentative and unconfident to accomplish such a thing, barely penetrating Mona while she squirmed in frustration, as though I were merely chafing at her, approximating the act.

At times I felt as if I were merely drifting from one room full of aliens to the next, never bored but never really taken out of myself, either.

This decision focused my creative energy and suddenly, almost as if I were merely transcribing, the characters in the play started to speak to me, and a great sense of urgency -- a marriage of my writer and activist brain -- took hold.

I was merely myself.

"I'm merely very good".

I am merely human.

I'm merely pessimistic".

But I was merely a staff sergeant.

I was merely very sorry for him.

I am merely the leader, he implies.