Sentence examples for merely middle from inspiring English sources

So "balconies are merely middle class"?

The super-rich give up their personal jets; the upper middle class cut back on private Pilates classes; the merely middle class forgo vacations and evenings at Applebee's.

Toronto hit plenty of home runs during their failed 2013 campaign, but because other statistics, such as on base percentage, weren't on par with their power game, they were merely middle of the road when it came to run production.

In this weekend's Your Money column, I return to a topic that I've come at in various ways in recent years: The question of how the merely middle class and semi-affluent among us can get good, ethical, reasonably priced financial advice without having to watch our backs and our wallets.

"Foreigners are merely middle-class," I continued.

But others have argued, with equal passion, that such reactions are merely middle-class food snobbery at its worst.

So while it looks like the guy I contacted was merely a middle man, the school is DEAD SERIOUS about not letting you register if you don't give them your phone number.

Tony Blair's educational background is often cited as evidence of poshness, but in truth the prime minister is merely a middle-class professional.

And unlike athletes in other professional sports, who have enough money saved up to weather a long strike, Australia's merely upper-middle-class footballers cannot afford to miss too many paychecks.

Though merely upper middle-class himself (married into the landed class, snobs would add) the prime minister is acutely sensitive to the relative privilege of his Eton-and-Oxford CV.

The interviews he conducted with friends and colleagues dwelt on Kelly's work as a weapons inspector, a part of his life that the Hutton Inquiry had neglected, partly buying into the government description, peddled in particular by Alastair Campbell, but also, cruelly, by Jack Straw that David Kelly was merely a middle-ranking official, with aspirations above his pay grade.