Sentence examples for i were merely from inspiring English sources

Paul and I were merely dead weight, what veteran bobsledders call sandbags.

Pregnancies, I felt, were the result of passion and experience; I was too tentative and unconfident to accomplish such a thing, barely penetrating Mona while she squirmed in frustration, as though I were merely chafing at her, approximating the act.

At times I felt as if I were merely drifting from one room full of aliens to the next, never bored but never really taken out of myself, either.

I was merely myself.

"I'm merely very good".

I am merely human.

I'm merely pessimistic".

But I was merely a staff sergeant.

I was merely very sorry for him.

I am merely the leader, he implies.

— Mark Twain "I'm merely running some errands.