Sentence examples for merely occupied from inspiring English sources

The whole house was his, and Guy merely occupied a small attic room that he had built.

They are not merely occupied or used by humans.

Béliveau made space instead of merely occupying it.

("I was merely occupying the president's time when his wife was away").

In ways she means to and ways she doesn't, Bachmann doesn't merely occupy the spotlight.

Driven back over the Greek frontier, the Allies were merely occupying the Salonika region by mid-December.

In a market where no one's buying or selling, the challenge is to inhabit where we live rather than merely occupying it.

There are times when merely occupying the office of prime minister sets holders of the position apart and invests them with authority when they need it most.

And they studied the presence of the termites in the earliest stages of a circle's formation, establishing that they were in on its creation, not merely occupying it at later stages.

But as in all Wilson's works the central story line merely occupies the foreground of an expansive portrait of African-American lives drawn in such rich detail that art seems to fuse with anthropology.

De Botton hastens to point out that although the perks and comforts of rank are undeniably delightful, merely occupying an enviable social rung is by no means a barometer of true worth.