Sentence examples for merely friends from inspiring English sources

Or are they merely friends by familiarity and formality?

The father and she were "never really together", merely "friends with benefits, I guess".

At first they were merely friends and roommates who swapped mysteries and introduced each other to favorite authors before going their separate ways, Miss Latsis to teach economics at Wellesley, Miss Henissart to practice law in New York.

One piece of advice Babbage was given early on was to back off: parents should let their preferences be known, but then leave the selection proces to their daughter or son, hopefully guided by a school councillor rather than merely friends.

In 1988 Margaret Thatcher, a scientist herself, put climate change firmly on the political agenda in her speech to the Royal Society when she said: 'It's we Conservatives who are not merely friends of the Earth — we are its guardians and trustees for generations to come.

People with a real need and use for the product will provide a less-filtered set of responses than those who are merely friends doing a favor.

Or merely loving friends?

Some of my most treasured possessions are broken-backed, scribbled-in, jacketless books first read when a teenager; they've lasted longer than merely human friends.

Any academic who doubts this should merely ask friends in other occupations what would happen to them if they turned up one day and refused to undertake key parts of their job.

Some acquaintances are merely "couples" friends.

I have completely lost touch with two of those brides, and am merely Facebook friends with the third, and for the record, none of them are still married.