Sentence examples for a mere instance from inspiring English sources

Alice, ever antisocial, refuses to become another number, a mere instance of a peculiar species rather than a world unto herself.

To say that a work of art has style is to invoke a standard for judging it, but one that cannot be specified in the form of a general law of which the work would be a mere instance.

Bolsonaro tends to wipe away his calls for violence as mere instances of "sarcasm" and "humor" ― to borrow a popular piece of sophistry from Trump's rise to power, he wants Brazilians to take him seriously, but not literally.

Words do not signify particular entities of any kind which come into being and disappear, but the corresponding universals which are eternal and of which the transient individuals are mere instances.

This however places a considerable burden on the imagination theory, and while one might want to accept that dream beliefs are too defective to count as real ones, the same might not be true for mere instances of thinking or wondering.

Could, for instance, a mere two minutes of strenuous training effectively improve health and fitness?

When Betsy Morgan, for instance, a mere wisp of a young woman, opens her mouth to sing the character Fantine's solo, "I Dreamed a Dream," in "Les Misérables," at the Paper Mill Playhouse, at least half the audience has to be thinking about Ms. Boyle's stunning 2009 performance of that song on "Britain's Got Talent" (78 million YouTube views so far).

For instance, a mere 8% of Scanlon and Neumann's [2002, p. 380] sample admitted to copying a text from the Internet without citation, but perceived that over 50% of their peers did so (Walker 2010, p. 2).