Sentence examples for both mere from inspiring English sources

Your health care provider and your favorite columnist are both mere croupiers, enablers for your health gambling habit.

(Brits secretly hoping for a hotter future, be warned: that collapsing sea ice may have caused the freakish jet stream behaviour that made 2012 the wettest English year on record and obliterated this year's spring, both mere amuse-bouche for the feast of climate impacts expected in coming decades, even from the carbon we've emitted so far).

Or -- even more disturbing -- are Wells and COMCAST both mere instruments of a concerted action being directed from even higher levels -- i.e. a harassment and subversion campaign by the government itself (and/or the masters of the all-powerful "banking cabal" -- who make the US federal government jump when they say "jump")?

Since its initial description by Schou and Scherb in 1986 of PL-IHS and CVT, there has been the ongoing debate about whether they are both mere associations and whether their occurrence is only coincidence.

Seneca praises poverty and argues that the wise man will allow neither joy nor grief to affect him, for both are mere distractions.

As with many of their predecessors, both had mere cops and temps threaten the lifestyles of the well-to-do managerial types.

Wright doesn't display any more visual or process-centered curiosity about Baby's music than he does about Baby's driving; both are mere aspirational emblems of Baby's — and the movie's — cool factor.

In both cases, mere words fall short.

But travel headaches afflicted both cities, as mere inches of snow shut down both roads and runways.

In both cases, a mere handful of the killers were ever convicted.

Players can flirt with both in a mere moment, but the outcome will exist for eternity.