Sentence examples for began merely from inspiring English sources
Dahlgren, whose career ended nearly 60 years before testing began, merely had his life wrecked.
But what began merely as a way to get to know some of Woodlawn's residents quickly became an obsession.
War began merely a month later.
About a year later an old parchment he had inscribed with a pastoral eclogue, "Elinoure and Juga," supposedly of the 15th century, deceived its readers, and thereafter what had begun merely as a childish deception became a poetic activity quite separate from Chatterton's acknowledged writings.
Even if this activity begins merely for recreational indulgences, young people are learning how to organize, generate their own ideas, and question the status quo in some of the world's most challenging environments.
"I've read many stories of revenants and apparitions," the book begins, "but my ghosts merely disappear.
Shanghai, where the trouble began, stood merely where it did in mid-February.Is the storm over?
Sixers doctors thought that Snow, whose right ankle was sore when the series began, had merely sprained it until X-rays on Tuesday morning revealed a fracture.
But as evidence mounted that the drugs could be dangerous, Amgen executives began hoping merely that the 145 trial would not show a negative effect.
Knowing the end was coming, even as the beginning merely bloomed.
But this is no more, really, than saying that music in a major key makes you happy; it is a beginning, merely -- a foundation on which to erect something that is artful, and itself.
