Sentence examples for a mere taste from inspiring English sources

There are several sample sizes, from 3 cl for a mere taste to 12 cl for a regular glass.

A short, nasty hill gives a mere taste of pleasures to come, then you see the valley end in a vertical cliff, up which some idiot has built a tarmac road at gradients that officially hit 25% but seem steeper.

Well, actually, the season opens with a mere taste of Mendelssohn, the "Italian" Symphony sandwiched between works of Mozart and Strauss, some with the soprano Kiri Te Kanawa as soloist, in a gala concert.

As unthinkable as it may seem, the horror that saw millions of people die unnecessarily of HIV/Aids while being denied safe and effective generic medicines produced at a fraction of the prices brand-name companies were charging, could be a mere taste of things to come.

The effort it took to get such heavyweights on stage all together, was destined to be the 2015 festival's takeaway – it was a fleeting moment of hip-hop greatness, a mere taste of the halcyon days that left us wanting a full meal.

She is about to bring out, with Assouline Publishers, "Be My Guest: Theme Party Savoir-Faire" ($34.95), a colorful account of 14 parties she gave in the past year, and a mere taste of what she's been known for since she arrived in New York in 1991 from London.

But that's the beauty of Al Covo: we did have an antipasto apiece, but our rigatoni and our monkfish were shared, and the deep-fried moeche were a mere tasting portion to start with.

Those who like exquisite might go for these impeccably mannered canvases, whose stylized parsings of the body are marked by such refinement as to give mere taste a bad name.

A great cook can tell by mere taste what else needs to be added to improve a bland or strange tasting dish and most of this comes from sheer practice and innate decisions.

James Wadworth, the poet, even dedicated a stanza to chocolate saying that the mere taste of it would make old women "young and fresh..

Or else a mere preferential taste that goes nicely with boiled new potatoes is all the justification required.