Sentence examples for merely a child from inspiring English sources

The national coach, an Austrian disciplinarian called Willy Kment, said that "Jensen is merely a child".

Maya Foa, director of Reprieve's death penalty team, said: "This decision to stay the execution of a man tortured into 'confessing' to a crime when he was merely a child is hugely welcome.

When his Alain first appears in "Fille," he performs a triple air turn, which (Ashton seems to be telling us) means that Alain is no fool, but merely a child, with a right to our respect.

And I'll answer that one: because we are conditioned to assume that a sweet-faced kid (and he was, until that face became twisted in anger and loathing) is the personification of innocence rather than merely a child en route to becoming a teenage racist moron.

He used excessive force on a human being who was merely a child.

How can we accept you into the adult rituals, if you remain merely a child?

The adult is not a customer or merely a "john" but a child predator.

"Immunization is not merely a need, but a child's basic right," said Kirkuk Governor Abdul Rahman Mostafa.

Obviously, he had explained to me merely what a child would be able to grasp, but it impressed me as much more because my schoolteachers and my father, all of them less great than Einstein, had never forgone a chance to make me feel a perfect fool (and to tell me, lest I should have missed drawing the inference), even when they spoke to me about fractions or equations of the first degree.

Dahl's purse-lipped critics fail to recognize that his stories don't merely indulge a child's fantasies — they replenish them.

As another example, oppositional defiant disorder (ODD) merely describes a child who displays anger.