Sentence examples for beginning merely from inspiring English sources

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.

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.

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.

War began merely a month later.

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.

Do Liverpool have to sell Luis Suárez because they have received an offer in excess of £40m or is that figure simply a trigger to begin, or merely consider, negotiating?

She too has fallen on hard times, has found herself diminished and bereft; with her appeal comes the possibility not merely of beginning afresh, but of retrieving and rearranging the past.

Ansari is clearly fascinated with gadgetry, and perhaps for that reason he overlooks the fact that most modern love begins not merely via devices and screens but with writing.