Sentence examples for merely takes from inspiring English sources

If the virus continues to spread, or merely takes root, as experts suggest it will, the cost in lost tourism will be large.

Cowell doesn't tend to pinch them; he merely takes up with them some time after the original relationship has run its course.

It merely takes the onus off the rest of society to seriously consider what we can all do to prevent sexual violence.

He merely takes the story's central conceit — a dead man, his heart apparently still beating, is stashed under the floorboards of his killer's room — and uses it as a symbol of the murderer's sense of guilt.

"A theatrical audience gives me life," she complains, irked by Murnau's insistence that she leave the Berlin stage at the height of the season, "while this thing" -- the camera -- "merely takes it from me".

His life in New York merely takes him through another series of undergrounds — whether it is in the work he finds to do, the radical political organization that recruits and uses him, or the oppressive conditions of life in Harlem.

He merely took them to the extreme.

O'Sullivan, meanwhile, has never actually retired, merely taken sabbaticals.

We're merely taking a small pause in the conversation.

He is merely taking a leave of absence.

If you merely took part in the murder, at least you got a nice souvenir.