Sentence examples for mere opening from inspiring English sources

It is a mere opening of the throat.

The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which owns the site, may regard the designs as a mere opening bid in a public relations battle to get as much office space as possible in the redevelopment.

Burger can easily tackle a mere opening ceremony The Namibians are a robust rugby nation but so low on heritage in the sport that they had to help the organisers out on Friday for the World Cup opening ceremony's parade of legendary greats.

Since at room temperature (298 K) CO2 is a gas, the mere opening of the valve of the cylinder containing the gas is not enough to move a sufficient amount of solvent into the syringe pump chamber.

For example, "The Incredibles", the latest blockbuster film from Pixar, took a mere $70.5m in its opening weekend, while the record for an opening day's ticket sales, at $40.4m, is held by "Spider-Man 2".

"Ant-Man" is a superhero movie for skeptics, which may help account for its apparent lack of popularity among the genre's habitual viewers (it has taken in a mere $57 million in its opening weekend, the second-lowest gross in Marvel history).

Disregarding proclamations of doom after its mere $100 million+ worldwide opening weekend, I am frankly shocked that this is holding up as well as it is.

He had significant ice time, including on special teams, and his mere presence created offensive openings for teammates.

It is the scent of the half-chance in broken play that transforms them, just as Dan Carter for New Zealand goes from uninvolved to fully flowing at the merest whiff of an opening.

I met Theatre Damfino's co-artistic director Katy Carmichael and the chef Matt Williamson during rehearsals, with the opening night a mere nine days away.

Today, proportions are different: A film, or pieces of it, shows up on the Internet before the screening, and reaction to the gala opening is a mere tweet away.