Sentence examples for if I merely from inspiring English sources

If I merely recounted his activities chronologically, neither Welles nor his work would be illuminated.

Would a home office violate my sublease if I merely receive business mail and packages at home, but do not see any clients?... Avi Kvaran, Bronx.

Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain by Oliver Sacks 367pp, Picador, £17.99 It is a remarkable fact that if I merely type "the Mission: Impossible theme tune" or "Beethoven's Fifth", you will probably start humming to yourself.

Guards wouldn't tolerate it if I refused, nor would they exercise patience if I merely went about the process slowly.

I don't know if I merely provided a temporary respite from her melancholy, or actually presented a preferable long-term perspective.

I know you'd dice me up in my sleep if I merely contacted an ex to ask for my crock pot back and if I'm intelligent enough to forsake a once beloved cookware item for the sake of sustained marital bliss, surely I'm sufficiently bright not to ask an ex to dope me up and go after my tender parts with drills and picks and skewers.

Forgive me if I'm merely being unobservant, but where is the international campaign against the Syrian regime?

For years I felt as if I was merely passing as a novelist.

"I could die today, if I wished, merely by making a little effort," he chirps.

It was as if I was merely a medium for the words to flow.

It's as if I'm merely a vessel for some divine command: "There shall be chocolate banana blondie bars.