Sentence examples for merely serving as from inspiring English sources

His act was a very public one, he apparently wanted to send a message, and The Post was merely serving as a conduit.

But local television and radio stations should be doing their own news gathering, rather than merely serving as support systems for news gathering by newspapers.

Men have often been thought to plant the seed, with women merely serving as the field in which the seed -- the homunculus -- grows.

Several former agents said the recent cases in Honduras suggested that the D.E.A. had been at the vanguard of the operations there rather than merely serving as advisers in the background.

The win took McElroy's record to 13-0 astarterrter (he would finish 24-3) and cooled the criticism that he was merely serving as a game manager, someone who would not necessarily lose or win games.

Nowadays, you have to wonder how many celebrities are really committed to couture's hidden charms and how many are merely serving as elaborate place holders in the front row.

Naturally, Page's photos don't merely serve as souvenirs -- they also become makeup colors.

But Underwood's encounters with a treacherously ambitious reporter don't merely serve as release.

But all those details merely serve as the backdrop for the choreography and the dancing.

The tax would merely serve as a floor — a new lower bound.

No, there is no closet; the curtains merely serve as an enclosure.