Sentence examples for mere through from inspiring English sources

About five years ago, driving to Eagles Mere through the Endless Mountains of central Pennsylvania, I was conscious of moving away from the world.

Some (most?) people would say that all-star extravaganzas, regardless of the sport, are mere go-through-the-motions displays ginned up with exhibitions like skills contests (N.H.L ., dunk contests (N.B.A).

The impact to hacks like this ranges from mere embarrassment through to significant financial losses.

No longer was it a mere window through which life and drama could be observed; now it was an opening through which they could be manipulated.

Congressional representatives are not mere instruments through which the policy preferences of their constituents are aggregated and submitted to the legislative body.

But campaign strategists say the Internet provides unrivaled opportunity to draw volunteers and donations for mere pennies, through Web sites that often make their interests and affiliations clear.

In the Romantic era the German storyteller E.T.A. Hoffmann and the American Edgar Allan Poe raised the horror story to a level far above mere entertainment through their skillful intermingling of reason and madness, eerie atmosphere and everyday reality.

Much more dynamic than a mere hunt through the printouts at a Realtor's office, apps can search out potential properties in a given area and present you with all the various options in an interactive list.

You might think that Paris fashion week is a mere skip through a pleasant field of pretty little Chanel tweeds and cute Vuitton hair accessories, but that's merely the froth on top of the cappuccino.

So it came as a shock to statistically minded fans when ESPN.com published a pair of articles by Tom Haberstroh, a basketball writer for the site, and Steve Ilardi, an academic, noting that home teams' winning percentage had dwindled from 61.2% in 2012-13 to a mere 53.7% through the first three months of the 2014-15 season.

This will require no mere detour through the sentiments, but a more thoroughgoing investigation into them particularly into the actions they typically motivate and the conditions that alleviate and exacerbate them.