Sentence examples for are merely slight from inspiring English sources

The highest peaks (about 11,600 feet) … are merely slight elevations of the rim of this unlifted plain.

They are merely a slight modification of existing models of belief for situations of ambiguity.

All acted in the movie and contributed to the screenplay, transforming what might otherwise have been merely a slight but likable comedy into the D.I.Y. equivalent of a rock 'n' roll supergroup: the mumblecore Asia.

The most substantive measure he announced — the additional police officers — was merely a slight increase in the already exceptional security that has been in place under an emergency decree, which has allowed the police to conduct more than a thousand raids around the country in pursuit of domestic threats.

But that was dismissed by the Department of Health and local authorities, who said there was merely a slight delay in certain areas waiting for new supplies of the drug, Cervarix, after the batch of the vaccine given to Morton were quarantined as a precautionary measure.

For MVF, the power level is practically constant, and what can be seen in the panel is merely a slight jitter.

Toys are merely totems.

They are merely larval.

They are merely bonkers.

Others are merely banal.

Bird droppings are merely gross.