Sentence examples for a mere warm-up from inspiring English sources
It was but a mere warm-up.
The ties were a mere warm-up for what was to follow.
The Atlantic Coast Conference tournament is too storied to be reduced to a mere warm-up for the N.C.A.A. tournament.
As we maneuvered down this Hidden Valley, we realized Golden Lake had been a mere warm-up.
That was a mere warm-up (sorry) for what awaited in Kansas City, Mo., where on Aug. 12 the heat index was 106.
While the religious would argue that life on earth is a mere warm up for an eternity spent in heaven or hell, and many scientists would dismiss the concept for lack of proof – one expert claims he has definitive evidence to confirm once and for all that there is indeed life after death.
The three humans in this cross-species event, Juliet Lee, Gravy Brown and Patrick Bertoletti are using this as a mere warm up for the human vs. human contest on July 4th.
For Truman Capote, the form was more than mere warm-up: in 1948, aged 24, he won the O Henry award for Shut a Final Door.
Without wanting to sound disrespectful to America and Canada, they were mere warm-ups in his Test match career.
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin and hotelier Orison Swett Marden's Success magazine (founded in 1897) were mere warm-ups to Dale Carnegie's How to Win Friends and Influence People (1936) and Norman Vincent Peale's The Power of Positive Thinking (1952).
