Sentence examples for mere drop from inspiring English sources

The excellence initiative is a mere drop in the bucket.That is why Mr Jacobs's donation matters.

But the consumer end of the market is a mere drop in the ocean.

Try adding a mere drop or two of lemon or mignonnette dressing to each.

There could be at least double the number of potential victims, it's a mere drop in the ocean".

He said the nonprofit fund had raised $180,000 for residents — a mere drop in the bucket, he acknowledged.

That's above average by the standards of children's-book publishing but a mere drop in the media maelstrom.

When foreigners join these flows they are mere drops in the torrent.

The mere dropping of the name, or the citation of a tag, suggests that a classical past still lives, solid and whole, below the surface.

It will, of course, take more than the mere dropping of a ball or the turning of a calendar page to banish the 1900's from Long Island.

But with China opening a new coal-fired power station every four days and oil leaks spilling billions of gallons, surely our actions are mere drops in the ocean?

During his tirade, he blurts out that he isn't carrying a bomb, and the mere dropping of the forbidden word "bomb" causes him to be roughly hustled off the aircraft and into an interrogation room.