Sentence examples for mere piece from inspiring English sources
A 17-year-old bone-thin orphan, alone in Cambodia's parched and desperate northwest after the Khmer Rouge regime collapsed in 1979, Srey was a mere piece of property to the motley bands of men with AK-47s slung over their shoulders.
Instead of spitting out a mere piece of paper, it produces an actual object.
Perhaps it was nave to expect a mere piece of clothing to remain a symbol of America.
So when one monkey was handed a grape in exchange for her token, the second was reluctant to hand hers over for a mere piece of cucumber.
"If you don't support the price," Andrei V. Polyakov, a spokesman for Alrosa, said, "a diamond becomes a mere piece of carbon".
If I peel back the corner of memories of that place, what races in is too big for any of me to feel at one sitting — no mere piece of land can be responsible for that".
Almost a century ago, the great Finnish distance runner Paavo Nurmi said: "Mind is everything; muscle, mere pieces of rubber.
Since then, doorframes are not mere pieces of wood that mark an entranceway, but potential points of refuge.
Sunderland officials have been impressed by the time the manager spends talking to players, getting to know them as people rather than mere pieces on a tactics board.
By the same token, they cannot be traded on the open market, which is why many of Bush's ideological allies dismiss them as mere pieces of paper, without inherent worth.
"The abortion lobby claims that the Gosnell clinic is an outlier, but the footage released this morning by Live Action reveals once more that the abortion industry treats women and children as mere pieces of meat," said Marjorie Dannenfelser, president of the Susan B. Anthony List, an anti-abortion group.
