Sentence examples for mere junk from inspiring English sources
For this year Hollywood confounded the critics who dismiss it as a mere junk factory, defied those who repeat the dread charge of "dumbing down" - and produced a clutch of substantial, thoughtful films.
Though the non-gene part of the genome is often dismissed as mere "junk DNA", they felt (correctly) that at least some of it must be biologically important, so disentangling the whole lot was therefore necessary.That turned out to be an idle fear.
Mere junk food would never sully their palates, they assured us.
Meanwhile, in Detroit, Rick Wagoner (pictured above right), the boss of General Motors, saw his firm's debt downgraded to a mere notch above junk by Moody's, a rating agency.
That is a larger premium even than during the financial crisis caused by the collapse of Long-Term Capital Management in the autumn of 1998.A mere $600m of junk debt is now being issued each month, one-eighth the amount of a year ago.
The 22.5 million stop requests Catalog Choice has processed over the past five years are a mere scrap of the some 85 billion pieces of junk mail that landed in American mailboxes in 2011.
Though the fugu fish has much the same number of genes as people, its genome is a mere eighth the size because it lacks much of the junk DNA that clutters the human genome.
As manager of a fund with a mere $187 million in assets, Moini focuses on sub-$300 million issues that big junk shops like Pimco tend to skip.
I'm all for cleanness and getting rid of junk, but the Passover cleaning actually has a far deeper meaning than mere dusting and tidying of basement closets.
On a routine Saturday stroll out with his friend, Ron Kitaj, he found just what he was looking for, a mere stone's throw away from where he has long lived and worked, in a junk shop on Peckham Rye.
The first Doctor Who master videotapes to be junked were those for the serial The Highlanders, which were erased on 9 March 1967, a mere two months after Episode 4's original transmission.
