Sentence examples for merely once from inspiring English sources

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Asked to clarify his present association with the organization, a representative for Owen stated that "Jake actually never had a partnership with the NRA", explaining that the singer had merely once attended an NRA Country-sponsored celebrity skeet shoot event.

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He certainly must have used the fine Latin translation of Plato's works by the leader of the fifteenth-century Florentine Platonists, Marsilio Ficino, when he read and cited Plato, but his correspondence mentions Ficino only once, merely as one name in a list of recent Hellenists who had translated Greek philosophers into Latin (Ep 862, CWE 6 10).

But once she merely shifts the angle of her face, she starts to resemble a model.

Perhaps, as Trump later insisted, he was merely being sarcastic; but once he assumes the presidency he needs to make it clear that he is as opposed to interference in democratic elections as Obama is.

Sciuromorphy evolved merely twice (once in Sciuridae and once in Castorimorpha) but it is noteworthy that the four zygommasseteric arrangements found in the Sciuromorpha clade is an unique case among rodents since other major suprafamilial groupings are characterized by one or two types at most.

The problem wasn't merely that "Once Upon a Time in America" had been shortened.

The response by the authorities to the protests has merely highlighted once again the government's unwillingness to tolerate dissent.

A recent spate of Euro scare stories, peddled in various British newspapers, merely illustrated once again the ingrained distortion which now passes for journalism on Europe.

The umpire's reluctance meant an inevitable review, which went in the batsman's favour by a millimetre: the fact that the ball would have blasted leg stump from the ground merely highlighted once more the absurdity of the generous margins of error allowed the officials.

Defending a clearly philistine decision with the claim that she, too, has been the victim of domestic abuse, and that publishing a virtual confession was thus her form of "revenge", Regan merely established once more that she will sell anything, including her soul.

Likewise, merely having once taken a prescription antacid could deem a personal uninsurable except at a much higher premium.

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