Sentence examples for merely practice from inspiring English sources

But it was merely practice for the Bigo Bogs we encountered the next day.

Saying he thought the rematch was merely practice, Sieracki then filed his own arbitration case, saying that the first arbitration decision should be invalidated because he had never been invited to the proceeding to defend himself.

In addition, the recommendations are merely practice and expert opinion based.

Another potential limitation could be due to fixed order WCST administrations: the remediation could reflect merely practice effect instead of an effect of verbalization.

No, she thinks, this is merely practicing to be old, and she hates it.

Mr. Botticella said in a deposition that he was merely practicing his computer skills in preparation for his new job.

Inexperienced putters who followed these instructions improved much more rapidly, he says, than those who merely practiced putts repeatedly.

Even the mischievous Rider, the leaguewide distraction who, in somewhat of an upset, merely practiced, fit in and reveled in the postgame celebration.

Responding to allegations by witnesses that women at the dinners, dressed as police officers and nuns, carried out stripteases, he explained that his guests were merely "practicing for burlesque competitions".

That may give those teams an advantage when play resumes relative to those stocked with players who merely practiced with university or junior teams, played some charity games, or simply waited it out.Even though the settlement guarantees a long period of labour peace, it still may not have addressed what many analysts believe is the league's underlying problem: over-expansion.

Fortune tellers had theretofore been charged with disorderly conduct, and their cases reached the state's higher courts over the years, as in 1945, when an appellate court determined that belief in the ability to tell fortunes is not a defense, and in 1913, when a fortune teller argued that she was merely practicing her religion, as president of the "Brooklyn Spiritualist Society".