Sentence examples for merely marked from inspiring English sources

From one perspective, Trump's rise has merely marked the evolution of Republican populism.

In Europe's long nightmare of a 20th century, the Eleventh Hour had merely marked a pause, not called a halt.

As the last week of campaigning got under way, smoke from hundreds of bonfires filled the night sky over La Paz, Bolivia's mountain capital.But the choking fires merely marked the annual celebration of the feast of San Juan.

The date, aside from the winter solstice, merely marked the end of a 5,125-year 5,125-yeare 13th baktun — and the beginning of a new one, acycleing theinterpretations of the Mayans' long-count calendar.

The great historian of the Armada, Garrett Mattingly, observed that the 1588 battle marked "the beginning of a new era in naval warfare, of the long day in which the ship-of-the-line... was to be the queen of battles, a day for which the armor-plated, steam-powered battleship with rifled cannon merely marked the evening".

A ceremony that should have been about students and their accomplishments had been reduced to one that merely marked the passage of time and was the culmination of an educational process that placed a premium on no child being labeled "exceptional" or the "best".

Megrahi's death "merely marks the end of one chapter," writes Scotland's The Herald.

Sometimes I feel as if the girls and I are merely marking time.

Nothing wrong with all this, of course — it probably adds to the health benefits — I merely mark the static.

But some thrive, whereas others merely mark time (Cleveland, Minsk, Pyongyang), go into apparently long-term decline (Detroit, New Orleans, Venice) or disappear (Tenochtitlán, Tikal, Troy).

To the Buchanans, who take money for granted and for whom every dream is corruptible, the green light merely marks where the water begins.