Sentence examples for merely staying from inspiring English sources

Merely staying clean was a major challenge.

The Giants through this were not merely staying alive; they did some early damage, too.

The guidelines describe, based on the doses people would be exposed to, the various levels of protection that would called for, from merely staying indoors (most radiation can't penetrate skin much less walls or windows), to evacuation.

And not merely staying, but going further in, embracing with more force what I'd been tempted to flee, maybe that was how to find a way to live in Mexico City without Aura.

At times they come at you so fast and frenzied — the selections are transmitted to the performers via headsets, and the pace is determined live by Mr. Fish — that merely staying afloat among Wallace's often dazzling sentences and swirling digressions becomes a serious challenge.

Time management gurus rarely stop to ask whether the task of merely staying afloat in the modern economy – holding down a job, paying the mortgage, being a good-enough parent – really ought to require rendering ourselves inhumanly efficient in the first place.

At an earlier pre-season match against Green Bay Packers, Kaepernick merely stayed in his seat while Francis Scott Key's defiant words were sung to their familiar tune.

Question is, will Brad Pitt, who has enjoyed his biggest career hit, reprise his onscreen role in the sequel or merely stay on as producer?

Given this gap, even if output merely stays at the fourth-quarter level for all this year, the total annual figure would still be 0.8% above the total for 2000.

I take this to mean in touch with things otherwise impossible to embrace rather than merely stay abreast of, although a certain ambiguity is the mark of accomplished writers.

3 Iron is an almost wordless movie which follows a burglar, Sun-hwa (Lee Seung-yeon) who breaks in - not to steal but merely stay the night, take a bath, do some laundry.