Sentence examples for a mere passageway from inspiring English sources

Yet Arabs could expect precious little of what they saw as a uniquely uninspiring land, barren, backward and impoverished – a mere passageway between the civilisations of Egypt and the Maghreb – and could not imagine that it would ever play a decisive role in the affairs of their region, let alone the world, or even aspire to.

A year earlier it showed a mere 1% rise.

In the end, the two architects added a mere (by today's standards) 2,400 square feet, in the form of a long, narrow, cedar-clad structure that connects to the tower with a short passageway.

A mere chardonnay, perhaps.

A mere $1 billion.

Not a "mere" tweaker.

A mere handful.

The price: a mere £35m.

Jim Trusdale was a mere acquaintance.

A mere hair's breadth.

She was a mere ghost.