Sentence examples for mere dead from inspiring English sources

One defector this week breezily dismissed his former boss as a mere "dead body in the house".

Indeed, we think that far too much technical damage has been incurred in the indices for the bulls to make a quick comeback and with all guns blazing...So, Friday's bounce may well prove to be a mere dead-cat bounce for stocks.

And I'm worried about his mere 70,000 dead.

The five-year, $137.5 million deal San Francisco signed Jimmy Garoppolo to back in February enables the 49ers to get out from under it with a mere $4.2 million dead cap hit following the 2019 campaign.

One class, called DNA transposons, appears to be dead, mere fossils in the DNA that have lost the signals they need for effective replication, are incapable of ever jumping anywhere again and are gradually decaying out of existence.

The shock of seeing her rise from the dead mere months later gave long-suffering Frank a heart attack and in true Kim style she used her compact mirror to check he was definitely dead and then nonchalantly powdered her nose.

Influenced by Sir Walter Scott's novels, the historian Carlyle strove to avoid the "mere abstractions and dead formulas" of Mignet and Thiers (CME 4 3).

Mill tells us specifically that if we ban speech the silenced opinion may be true, or contain a portion of the truth, and that unchallenged opinions become mere prejudices and dead dogmas that are inherited rather than adopted.

It's a game, with the mere addition of dead people.

And his critics that have dismissed Obama's ability to inspire as "mere words" are dead wrong.

McClintock noted a large quantity of heavy goods in the lifeboat at the "boat place" and thought them "a mere accumulation of dead weight, of little use, and very likely to break down the strength of the sledge-crews".