Sentence examples for merely hurt from inspiring English sources

If Minnesota's win merely hurt your bracket, know that it could always be worse.

Obese people are at greater risk of heart attacks, diabetes, strokes and a host of other ailments that not merely hurt them, but stretch America's already overtaxed health-care system.

In interviews today, parents said the Board of Education merely hurt innocent children when it voted unanimously on Wednesday to cancel the Mepham Pirates' varsity and junior-varsity football seasons.

But some officials and moderate Cuban-American leaders have concluded that restricting transfers and travel would merely hurt ordinary Cubans and undercut the effort to build ties with independent people outside the government.

Of course, wage theft and misclassification don't merely hurt the cheated worker; taxpayers get fleeced, too.

If Janice Crouse of Concerned Woman for America is to be believed, the alleged "decline in marriage and breakdown of the family" hasn't merely hurt individuals but "undermined social institutions and shaken the stability and economic viability of nations".

It merely hurts less to be "cool".

Suing companies for their managers' errors, however, merely hurts shareholders a second time.

Mr Cook's lawyers claim she is a woman scorned, whose demands to go public are merely hurting her children; she claims her children deserve to know the truth behind their parents' break-up.

But the conventional wisdom up until yesterday was that the slotting of Captain America 3 against Batman v Superman back in March was not about "winning" but rather about merely hurting DC's must-succeed team-up picture even if Captain America took a hit in the process.

There's going to come a time when these ethnic gangs, who've gotten so much attention from merely hurting members of their own race, are going to go after bigger fish.