Sentence examples for mere fall of 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.

The Czechs and Slovaks, a mere week after the fall of the Wall, launched their own Velvet Revolution.

One such meeting in Baghdad was in May 2014, mere months before the fall of Mosul in June, when they hosted representatives from, amongst others, Pizza Hut, Quiznos, the smoothie chain Froots, and woman's midlife crisis fitness chain Curves.

But the fall of Jim Watson goes beyond mere personal tragedy.

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.

The mere fact of hospitalisation represents a risk factor for falls.

In both cases, mere words fall short.

— GRETCHEN REYNOLDS DIVING THE FACTS Olympic diving is like high-stakes aerial gymnastics: who can pack the most intricate and flawless combination of twists, flips and pikes into mere seconds of free fall?

Given how far the Giants have fallen, the mere mention of winning out seems preposterous.