Sentence examples for merely as it from inspiring English sources

I remember becoming aware that, for most children, home was where they lived, and not merely, as it was for me, a place that I visited for brief interruptions to my main life that was lived at school.

A statement of identification is merely, as it were, a feature-placing relational statement, like "This is darker than that".

There are no theatrics here, no pushing, no look-at-me, but merely dance as it might be done without an audience.

It is a monumental face now, so puckered and pleated that it no longer looks merely weathered, as it has for decades, but seems closer to petrified wood.

But Punch was not so much merely antiroyal as it was antihumbug (the novelist W.M. Thackeray, after all, was another of the staff).

An international best-seller and a personal productivity system known merely as GTD, it's been hailed as being a "new cult for the info age".

Others were merely puzzled, as it was quite warm in Sydney.

As long as writing was seen merely as transcription, as it was by such pioneering linguists as Ferdinand de Saussure and Leonard Bloomfield earlier in the 20th century, its conceptual significance was seriously underestimated.

Just like his son recalled on that day in Newark, he encouraged us to regulate the world around us as thermostats instead of merely record it as thermometers.

While it might be tempting to see them merely as pro forma, it is clear that complete disregard of such remarks is anachronistic.

And not merely, as Huckabee has it, because they wanted its foot soldiers.