Sentence examples for finished merely from inspiring English sources

Vettel, his fellow competitors and their respective pit crews confronted a Hungaroring on Sunday that began wet, dried out, got soaked and finished merely damp, rendering much of Sunday's action a tactical game of tire choices.

Despite this, he finished merely tied for 18th position overall for the AL's Most Valuable Player award, far behind winner (and former Yankee) Roger Peckinpaugh of the Washington Senators.

Wilson's clinical finishing merely highlighted Fellaini's on-going woes in front of goal.

Choose things that could stand finishing: not merely starting.

But he has been praying a lot in preparation for his next race — not that he will finish first, but merely that he and his bike will survive the journey to the start.

It seems an appropriate and natural way to enter Beverly Hills, but they have merely finished putting up a new movie advertisement on a huge one-legged billboard.

The mutiny of 1857 merely finished off the process.

But the Energy Department dismissed that assertion, saying that Solyndra applied for federal help during the Bush administration and that Obama-era officials merely finished the process the Republicans had begun.

Rather, it was the one "that Stalin destroyed and Hitler merely finished off".

Fast-forward: "Litton now regularly races marathons, not content to merely finish 26.2 miles but to post times that few runners his age can match".

In spite of an increase in the number of Roma children enrolled in primary schools from 4,186 in 2009 to 5,470 in 2013, according to REC I+ Studyonly 24 per cent of Roma adults in the Croatia study sample finished primary school, and merely 8 per cent finished secondary school.