Sentence examples for merely absent from inspiring English sources

The D.C. State Board of Education said there is no way to differentiate students who were merely absent on testing day from those who intentionally stayed home to avoid the test.

After an unhappy and isolated childhood — his mother, Fanny, was off in America; his remote, depressive father, a failed barrister, was merely absent — he was generally regarded as a hopeless case.

And that's to say nothing of fairy tales' daddy figures, who are ineffectual, ogreish or merely absent.

It is unknown whether integrons are missing from these lineages all together, or if they are merely absent from the specific organisms selected for sequencing projects.

When I pour myself a glass of water and can't remember where I placed it just a minute later, am I merely being absent-minded, or am I losing my mind?

Upon examination of the mutation in bovine FXI, it is most likely that the protein is not absent, but merely truncated prematurely because of the presence of a stop codon that was introduced by the insertion.

A small BBC season this autumn celebrating the National's 50th anniversary merely emphasises how absent it usually is from our screens.

Such observations thus challenge the representation of insight as being merely present or absent in a binary fashion.

So when Bob forgets to take out the garbage, Mary sees him as merely a bit absent-minded, but really that's understandable given how hard Bob has been working, and really, brilliant people are often a little absent-minded, aren't they?

Every "legal scholar" or pundit defending Clinton assumes that merely convenience, or absent-mindedness, was the reason for a private server.

Thus, when a given metabolite is not detected, it is unknown whether that metabolite was indeed absent or merely undetectable.