Sentence examples for merely cheap from inspiring English sources

Salmond's pitch was merely cheap talk.

In Donizetti, Dr. Dulcamara's potion is merely cheap wine.

The craving for cheap wines may be surging, but merely cheap is no bargain.

When Pavement last played a New York show, in 1999, people were still using pagers, and this part of Brooklyn was merely cheap and ugly.

But the show isn't merely cheap laughs and frights for grown-ups; it's a history lesson, in a macabre sort of way.

They create products that are stripped to their essentials: scanners that cost $10,000 rather than $100,000; portable electrocardiographs that cost $500 instead of $5,000 (see article).These devices are not merely cheap knock-offs of Western designs.

4) Nobody ever handed over the World's Greatest Gift with the words "I saw this and thought of you!" No, "I saw this and thought of you!" is reserved for the tasteless novelty item, the cutely quirky or the merely cheap-and-cheerless.

Prevention is not merely cheaper.

It's not merely a cheap trick.

It was not merely a cheap gimmick.

This is merely a cheap wine," she said.