Sentence examples for merely delayed from inspiring English sources

The goal was merely delayed.

But, if you play this game day in and day out, your death is merely delayed.

Now it appears that these prudent steps have merely delayed the day of reckoning.

But questions remained about how successful they were and whether they had merely delayed the inevitable.

Mr. Janke emphasized, however, that the team's voyage was merely delayed.

But pumping in debt didn't prevent recession: it merely delayed it.

Those ashes were merely delayed in reaching their final resting place.

The Bengals scored on that drive anyway, so Pierce's quick thinking merely delayed the touchdown.

The sixth man, John Blair, was merely delayed in his long, uncertain journey from Virginia.

They did not report on whether that meeting had now been cancelled – or merely delayed.

Thomson's reply to me is disingenuous, implying that the payment, like the flight, was merely delayed.