Sentence examples for merely a scratch from inspiring English sources

"Merely a scratch", he says, insouciantly.

This was in spite of the opposition of civil servants in the Home Office who dismissed the borough as "merely a scratch collection of 240,000 people cut off from Manchester by the river".

And that's merely a scratching of the operatic surface; I haven't even mentioned Monteverdi, without whom none of the above could have happened.

As a behavior change challenge, in many settings we would merely be applying a scratch to a pre-existing itch.

These were the names that fenced in the West and allowed America to swagger, a self-sufficient Titan, on to the world stage.Five varieties already seems impressive: but they merely scratch the surface.

This, though, is merely to scratch the surface, and we will be coming to terms with Rautavaara's oeuvre for decades to come.

This is merely to scratch the surface of such complicity, which evinces not democratic messianism, but cultural condescension of the sort that has always characterised both liberal internationalism and the neoconservatism with which it shares a vocabulary.

For this reason, there is no quick fix for us today; to talk about climate change, renewable energy or staycations is merely to scratch the surface of something much deeper.

Not a scratch.

A scratch on the screen.

Barely a scratch on it.