Sentence examples for mere fall from inspiring English sources
edited by John F. Callahan Hamish Hamilton, 368pp, £16.99 There are three monoliths of American fiction, by writers whose subsequent works proved to be a mere fall of pebbles: Call It Sleep, by Henry Roth; The Catcher in the Rye, by J D Salinger; and Invisible Man, by Ralph Ellison.
When her husband dies, the widow often becomes a pariah, excluded from family gatherings for fear the mere fall of her shadow will bring bad luck and tragedy.
The circuit of the waters is mere falling.
Some predictions for nationwide traffic talk about a mere 1% fall this year from last year's total of around 700m passengers; some say it could reach more than a billion by 2012.Even if growth disappears completely, few business people were exactly happy with the status quo.
In both cases, mere words fall short.
While media projects Beyonce signing a Pepsi $50 million ad campaign throughout the World Wide Web, the fact that single Black mothers across America have a median net worth of a mere $5 dollars falls in the shadow of the singularity of her financial success.
WHEN the mighty fall, mere mortals get scared.
Not just the mere fact that they're falling, but they're still falling at an accelerating rate.
But these are mere hopeful thoughts, falling far short of addressing Tamil concerns.
"In the contrast between megamillionaires and mere mortals, I fell in the later category," he said.
Nevertheless these latter are present in the class struggle as something other than mere booty, which falls to the victor.
