Sentence examples for mere thing from inspiring English sources
'mere thing' is correct and usable in written English
You can use it to refer to something that is insignificant or unimportant. For example, "I can't imagine why he was so upset over such a mere thing."
Property is more than the mere thing which a person owns.
Across a river, he sees his pearl again, but now the "perle" is no mere thing — she is a young girl, richly arrayed in an elaborate outfit covered in pearls.
A reader with any artistic sense finds in a single solitary line from a poet at once musical and picturesque qualities, sculpturesque strength and architectural structure; and the same with a picture, which is never a mere thing of the eyes but an affair of the whole soul, and exists in the soul not only as colour but as sound and speech.
The constitution, on this hypothesis, is a mere thing of wax in the hands of the judiciary, which they may twist, and shape into any form they please.
A man who himself does not believe what he tells another … has even less worth than if he were a mere thing.
As Thomas Jefferson said "The constitution, on this hypothesis, is a mere thing of wax in the hands of the judiciary, which they may twist, and shape into any form they please".
Its beauty transcends mere things.
Dennett does not believe that we are "mere things".
These are no mere things that go bump in the night.
Inanition and mere things have overwhelmed the human presence, as in one of Antonioni's empty urban landscapes.
Partly I said it to annoy her and partly I thought she cared too much about mere things.
