Sentence examples for mere lines from inspiring English sources
Perhaps both Iraq wars, rolling past their 20- and 10-year moments respectively, seemed mere lines drawn in the sand.
The 3.5 million acres of wilderness handed over to C.I.B. by the Congo Republic are divided into segments; roads are mere lines on the map; trees are specks.
Though the collection is small, you have never (ever) seen such unbounded sex embodied in the mere lines of pencil sketches.
One is his vision of the United States, Mexico and Canada united in a common market, their borders mere lines on the map, a generation from now.
I'd give many more sleepless hours just to feel with you that first thrill of having created something in and of yourself, to make something live, even if it be mere lines of a pencil.
More such divide-and-rule tactics in Europe are likely: Russia's pipelines export political influence even when they are still mere lines on a map.But turning off the gas taps, to punish the EU, seems unlikely.
And they should remember that new products are generally more successful than old, repackaged ones or mere "line extensions".
Their village, this smidgen of relative calm a mere line-cast away from the thrash on Mumbai's main streets, sits on prime real estate.
The earliest drawings of presumably "primitive" humankind are fantastical figures, radically simple, mere line drawings on rock; the earliest tales are of deities, spirits, angels and demons, but not human beings in their/our singularities.
All this is part of his larger vision: that in 20 years' time, maybe less, maybe more, the border will no longer be a barrier, fortified by armed guards, but a mere line on a map dividing two partners in a common market, and with much more in common than what divides the United States and Mexico today.
Hume was responsible for transforming the hedge from "a mere line of persistently dwarf seedlings, or of irregularly scattered, disconnected bushes" into a formidable barrier that, by the end of his tenure as commissioner, contained 448.75 mile of "perfect" hedge and 233.5 mile of "strong and good", but not impenetrable hedge.
