Sentence examples for merely fallen from inspiring English sources

He's merely fallen off the wagon.

Our teacher had merely fallen under the spell, like countless others before and after, of the most pernicious piece of literature in the American canon.

He had merely fallen face first across the bed, as though sleep were a weapon that had struck him from behind.

Many seem convinced that their leader has merely fallen ill and that the silence has been an attempt to maintain his image as a bare-chested, judo-wrestling horse-riding warrior.

(As the video made the rounds, the fare-dodger — Sam Main, nineteen, from Falkirk — came forward to say that he had been out celebrating and had merely fallen asleep.

The colonial administrators deny these accusations, saying that the cuts to his head and his tumble into the water were accidental, and that he had merely fallen into "a state of collapse".

But then television merely fell in step with the times.

There, and elsewhere, fertility rates did not merely fall; they went below what people said they wanted.

I'm convinced I defeated her using my Matrix-style moves; witnesses maintain she merely fell asleep.

Sampras's serves, meanwhile, merely fell from about 125 m.p.h., say, to 115 with his second serve.

I hope the city embraces this opportunity and maintains it – otherwise the number will merely fall again in 2019 when the metro is finished.