Sentence examples for mere sitting from inspiring English sources

As she attacks the score, the music literally pulls her off the piano bench; she ranges up and down the keyboard so quickly and with such ferocity that mere sitting will not do.

After some mandatory initial waffle about distinguishing a serious physical problem from mere sitting pains, Madewela at last said something interesting.

I'm a mere historian sitting in Oxford.

And yes, 50 miles per hour, when you're sitting mere inches off the ice, is a scary kind of fast.

That night there were dozens of club members on hand sitting mere feet away from the president.

Still, the mere appearance of sitting lawmakers in a video for a super PAC is certain to highlight questions about how independent these groups actually are.

The larger question may be how to extract the hostage sitting a mere 10-minute drive from the crisis, behind the Kremlin's towering walls.

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".

The mere sight of him sitting on a stool, singing in Spanish and playing an acoustic guitar in this, the most traditional of rock venues, proves how far this quintessential outsider has come.

"But why'd the Russians crash their boat, Jim?" "They were being chased by the Coast Guard, Fred". "Well, I don't know for sure but fellas say the doctors were smuggling body parts". "You mean like livers and kidneys, for big money". Bimini, sitting a mere fifty miles off the Florida Coast, has led a charming renegade life.

The other is Laura, played by Ms. Hart, who seamlessly, callously descends from mere disgruntlement ("He's a sitting target for every tart in the district," she says of Adam) into sadism.