Sentence examples for a mere flick from inspiring English sources

And writers no longer cause a stir by a mere flick of the wrist.

Their tongues are a telltale blue, and their tails have spikes, which they can shoot like arrows with a mere flick, impaling any humans in the neighborhood.

They are masters in frugal flying; a mere flick of the wings sends them corkscrewing upwards, or sailing on invisible currents to another part of the skyline.

The night before the snow came, I unwrapped the plastic sheeting and wrapped both cars, so that with a mere flick of the wrist we would be able to make our escape.

But those times when I can barely lift a leaden limb, I can rely on music to transport me away, not even needing trains and boats and planes but a mere flick of the finger on a button.

In a time when we can access any music with a mere flick of a mouse, it is hard to imagine just how extraordinary this access to the sequestered sounds of Covent Garden must have been.

The bad news is in that particular statement itself: It implies that Mr. Nasrallah can, as he did before, indeed ignite a sectarian feud in Lebanon with the mere flick of a finger.

One boat temporarily lost a crewman while setting their spinnaker he was launched overboard by the mere flick of a flailing line while another went "briefly" aground.

In Ithkuil, the difference between glimpsing, glancing, and gawking is the mere flick of a vowel.

Gayle is off the mark with a mere single, flicked to deep midwicket.

He sings to the audience, from the old farmhand who keeps his callused hands down to the rich buyer who bids with mere flicks of a finger.