Sentence examples for merely grow from inspiring English sources

If job reductions do not begin to slow in coming months, consumer spending could decline as it did in 1991, rather than merely grow slowly, as it has in recent months.

There was no epiphany, merely growing dismay.

"We have merely grown accustomed to taking the photographic document to be correct.

And maybe the brushfires and the difficult losses are merely growing pains.

Likewise, punk bands -- and even bands who merely grew up on punk -- look out for their fans.

If these are merely growing pains, the Patriots may eventually emerge from them as a strong defense again.

In fact, if it weren't for their attire or makeshift signs declaring their penury, you might easily mistake them for someone who'd merely grown tired of shopping and had decided to sit down and have a quick break.

He stood, as if to acknowledge the inspector's attentions, but didn't glance upward, possibly not wishing to incur rebuke, or perhaps he had merely grown incurious about what were, for him, routine operations.

There are a lot of loans that go bust when real output falls 3% in a year that would not if output merely grew at 0.5%.Big crises therefore display a rather significant level of recursivity.

Compared with what the more promising newbies face these days, the emergent superstars of yore practically took their Grand Slam treats by merely growing tall enough to reach into the cookie jar.

All three are richer than Korea but all are, in different ways, exceptions: Singapore and Hong Kong are city states, while Taiwan's disputed sovereignty makes it sui generis.South Korea has not merely grown fast.