Sentence examples for mere turn from inspiring English sources
But with a mere turn of the page Halibut has emerged happily as the party's most popular guy; his magnificent costume is coveted by all.
Investors do not yet know whether a quarter-point hike will dampen growth; but they now know that if it does not, Mr Greenspan will act again.By itself, a mere turn in the interest-rate cycle would not be devastating for shares.
It wouldn't have taken much to turn "The Devil Inside" into a regular riot of symbolic fury and street-level philosophical speculation; its pulp classicism awaits a mere turn of the screw; whereas "War Horse" or "The Artist" invite nothing but silence; they are dead ends.
"Richer than kings!" my wife and I regularly remind ourselves whenever we enjoy a fresh avocado in Colorado in winter, when we take a hot shower at the mere turn of a tap, when we receive quality dental care, when we listen to music or audiobooks on our iPods, when we never go hungry.
Prison officers are no mere "turn-keys", or glorified bouncers.
They allege that the mouth holds the key, despite the fact that a mere turning of the head can draw the lips apart.
"Struggling for his identity within the materials at hand," they "show us, in the mere turning of a sentence this way or that, how to keep from being smothered by the inherited structuring of things," Mr. Poirier wrote.
The gesture varies in all degrees from the complex movement, just described to only a momentary and scarcely perceptible raising of both shoulders; or, as I have noticed in a lady sitting in an armchair, to the mere turning slightly outwards of the open hands with separated fingers...
And that mere act turns the relationship into something that others -- your friends, your family -- have a stake in.
At one point last week, three channels were slinging simultaneous reality TV soil at our innocent faces, making the mere act of turning on your box a high risk activity, like the radio would be if 75% of all music were written by Redfoo.
This is no mere star turn.
