Sentence examples for had merely shot from inspiring English sources

The unbridled young woman had merely shot at a photograph of her former lover.

Though the generation of women just ahead of me had theoretically paved the way to female empowerment, it was as if they had merely shot us full of social Restylane; we were all puffed up with bra-burning rhetoric and glory but it turned out it was only temporary: pretty soon, the plumping wore off and exposed the true sagging underneath.

Asked to clarify his present association with the organization, a representative for Owen stated that "Jake actually never had a partnership with the NRA", explaining that the singer had merely once attended an NRA Country-sponsored celebrity skeet shoot event.

But the New York Police Department concluded that both women had merely received scrapes while fleeing the shooting, and did not count them as crime victims.

She maintained that Gagarin, Titov, and Glenn had been in space, while her son maintained they had merely been in a "space condition" inside their capsules, and hadn't actually shot out into space.

Would that have happened if he had merely seen "some signs the recession may be coming to an end" and left the "green shoots" well alone?

She had merely misspoken.

In fact it had merely hosted them.

The Communists had merely to wait.

He had merely arrived ahead of schedule.

She had merely betrayed her youth.