Sentence examples for if merely from inspiring English sources

A May 4 letter writer says that "if merely owning a President Barbie inspires in just a small percentage of the millions of girls who will doubtless own this doll the desire to run for president, maybe it's not such a terrible thing".

Or the full-frontal sex (even if merely line-drawn)?

People gave least if merely told the the bald statistics.

A censure of any kind would be a powerful, if merely symbolic, critique of the behemoth.

Its excellence seemed effortless, as if merely the product of smart shopping and a hot oven.

But if merely telling patients about side effects increases their likelihood, what is to be done?

Adrift among acoustic alchemy, Wagner murmurs as if merely thinking aloud.

Similarly, the importance of depression may be overestimated if depression merely reflects worse heart failure.

As if he merely charms the song into being.

If gulped merely as a thirst-quencher, it's wasted.

Most of the wells would achieve RENs below 75% if extracting merely the same volume as they injected.