Sentence examples for children merely from inspiring English sources

Parents walked nervously up and down the hospital ward, hoping to find their children merely among the burnt and blistered.

The programme is based on the idea that sugar does its damage to the body and to children merely through the calories it contains.

Are advocates of dishing out licks to unruly children merely victims of liberal prejudice or do we need to say that striking your own children is as unacceptable as any other sort of violence?

Having stopped his education in his junior year of Erasmus Hall High School in Brooklyn to run a paper route for The Journal-American and help support his family, he is convinced that children merely need to be exposed to Misha Dichter's piano or Adrian Noble's Shakespeare or even Andy Rooney to raise their expectations of life.

Beginning in late-1970s, Panddise and colleagues published a series of reports and randomized controlled trial results showing that only those children severely affected by throat infections benefitted from the removal of the tonsils, while moderate to minimally affected children merely showed modest benefit that may not outweigh the risk of surgery.

The young men and woman who robbed our neighbors in broad daylight socialized with us and other neighbors throughout their heist, leading us to assume that they were the neighbors' grown children, merely moving some stuff to their own place.

"A mother can often tell her own child merely by its smell after a few days," he says.

Without such ongoing exposure the child merely loses through lack of practice the tentative skill s/he has acquired – as the OECD report shows so damningly.

Is the child merely a slow talker who will eventually catch up to his or her peers, or does the child have a speech or language disorder in need of evaluation and therapy?

If it could, in fairness, have been said that the expenditure was a measure for the protection of the safety, health or morals of youngsters, it would not merely have been constitutional to grant it; it would have been unconstitutional to refuse it to any child merely because he was a Catholic.

In fact, since adults are likely to supervise this development, it would save precious student time, time perhaps better devoted to numeracy and literacy, if the universities invited parents to submit the resulting creations to Ucas under their own names, with the child merely confirming it is the adult's own, unaided work.