Sentence examples for a mere word from inspiring English sources

Updike was not a mere word processor.

Messing with an iconic cover song of course has its obvious pitfalls, but artists are also known to wreak this kind of ruin on their own material, with a mere word or two made different.

A. Over the years, Microsoft Word has evolved from a mere word-processing program to one that tackles graphic design and even basic Web-page coding chores.

The insight of the Sun team was that a single computer on a desk is a mere word-processing, number-crunching machine.

There's no evidence whatsoever that Congress intended this outcome, and plenty that the plaintiffs have seized on a mere wording glitch to argue that Congress meant to destroy its own healthcare reform.

The other is a book of justice that cannot be defined by just a few mere words; it made me feel a better person just for reading it.

The mere word that Suharto was establishing a currency board sent the rupiah up 30%.

That slim book, a mere 50,000 words, has become the essential American text ranking alongside Catch 22 as the rite of passage book that every young man and woman has to read.

It had a mere 4,096 words of memory, and its word length was 12 bits very short even by the standards of the times.

Barack Obama has been denounced again and again as a privileged wordsmith, a man of mere words who has "authored" two books (to use Sarah Palin's verb), and done little else.

In fact, the mere word has negative connotations.