Sentence examples for becomes mere from inspiring English sources

As a result, what is earned sentiment in the novel becomes mere sentimentality in the musical.

But Ms. Tharp recycles and recycles it here: it becomes mere sensationalism.

Yet it cannot be too thin, or it becomes mere shallow rhetoric.

So once the content disappears into Facebook's algorithmic maw it becomes mere fodder for its calculations.

Absent carbon and critical microbes, soil becomes mere dirt, a process of deterioration that's been rampant around the globe.

India becomes mere background to a marital drama and comes into focus again only with a violent and arbitrary denouement.

Individuals simply become mere statistics.

Will children become mere consumer goods?

Words become mere sound again.

The rest became mere decoration.

Have the conferences become mere shop windows?