Sentence examples for merely a word from inspiring English sources

"Old" is merely a word for something that was once new and survived; no amount of affectation will provide a shortcut.

However, Mr. Girard said, if the administration is only prepared to offer leases on areas already under development, that is merely "a word game".

He said that "containment" was merely a word he chose, in a letter in 1946, in answer to a particular situation.

The software is not merely a word processor with large fonts: it can also serve as a silent guide on the art of persuasion.

For what we need, in filling in this blank, is not merely a word – the best word – that is appropriate to the sea, but also necessary to the sea in this particular poem.

He argues that "nigger" is merely a word, used in all strata of society, and he seems to agree with Oliver Wendell Holmes, who said that a word "is not a crystal, transparent and unchanged," but "the skin of a living thought [that] may vary greatly in color and content according to the circumstances and the time in which it is used".

This could be merely a wording issue, and when the notice is released, we'll get into its weeds.

You could make a sentence merely because a word keeps popping into your mind.

Worse, you may reject it merely because a word triggers a negative reaction.

"The review you had on Shark Sandwich - which was merely a two word review.

Still, it was not merely a favorite word but a favorite concept, and he was not so attached to it that he forwent its synonyms.