Sentence examples for mere place from inspiring English sources

A house was no longer a mere place to live; it was a checkbook that never required a deposit.

For one thing, many of the abandoned sites were mere place holders, so their disappearance actually increases the percentage of sites that he calls active.

A goal like that is a once in a generation thing, impossible to beat for a moment of joy and catharsis, and surely worth more than a mere place in the Premier League.

Just two months ago, we were in heated debate about baseball's mere place in our sudden crisis culture, grappling with our guilt for even caring about when the season should resume and El Duque's condition and the long nights of the postseason to come.

"Your office can be a great wonder instead of a mere place to do business," he said.

The roughnecks are mere place setting, designed to get the aged Rose Gloria Stewartt) in their midst to tell them the story of the sinking of the Titanic.

Most consider the Swiss born Italian to be a mere place-holder in the wake of Villas-Boas's exit, before a more permanent appointment is made in the summer.

They are also different from to do lists (e.g., what you want to read for the text) or mere place-holders (e.g., to what you want to refer at which part of the text, like "something about x here").

In recent years, however, architects have begun to appreciate swimming pools as more than mere places to cool off.

No special exception is needed to make clear that the mere placing of an ordinary radio or television set in a private hotel room does not constitute an infringement.

The mere placing of the Garber call, however, prompted questions on Monday about whether the governor's resolve to stay in office had diminished after a week of damaging testimony before the committee about his conduct.