Sentence examples for merely running from inspiring English sources

— Mark Twain "I'm merely running some errands.

He said he was merely running for president like the rest of the candidates, and if he won, he would be the nation's first black president.

Belichick said after the game that, without tight-end packages in the game plan, the Patriots were merely running their regular offense.

He was accused, in his time, of merely running a "novel factory" and (by no less a personage than Sainte-Beuve) of perpetrating "industrial literature".

A parallel assumption emerged that the 46-year-old Mr. Obama was merely running in 2008 to sow good will for a campaign in 2012 or 2016.

Crosby, whose Pittsburgh Penguins play the Rangers on Tuesday night at Madison Square Garden, is not merely running up big statistics; for a fleet scoring star coming back from injury, he is playing rugged, perhaps even a bit dirty.

It merely runs horizontally, instead of vertically.

The more cautious candidate merely runs.

The imagination of the artist, it seems, cannot merely run riot but must follow an inner psychological compulsion.

Morphine, for instance, is regarded as fine for those suffering extreme pain but not for those who have merely run out of heroin.

That is tough on Mr Cameron, who has presided over a debt-racked, unhappy country; Mr Johnson has merely run its richest city.