Sentence examples for merely in a from inspiring English sources

And not merely in a horndog way.

To him, G.M. is merely in a temporary bind.

Teller was cast merely in a supporting role as a one-dimensional villain.

The episode is the city's worst corruption scandal in decades, not merely in a decade.

The data-mining companies believed, they say, that they were merely in a situation of complicity with government.

Or that he is merely in a "gay relationship" the staid and cautious phrase used by the Telegraph and ITV?

New York Life continues to contest the suit and said that Ms. Livornese served merely in an advisory capacity.

A former N.Y.P.D. bomb expert said that if it had gone off, it would have resulted merely in "an incendiary event," rather than a big blast.

She had hoped that the ban would be included in the food safety bill, not merely in an amendment to be considered separately.

But humans do have such a capacity and are thus profoundly different from even the higher animals, which deal with impressions merely in an unreflective way (2.8).

The agency justifies this reality by reminding critics that it only gained strong operational capacities last year, before which it served merely in an advisory capacity.