Sentence examples for merely unknown from inspiring English sources
In the rest of the world, they were merely unknown.
But whether the corpses were marked "unknown terrorist" or merely "unknown" remains in dispute.
The absurdism in "The Ballad of Buster Scruggs" is sometimes Groucho-Marxist, sometimes Chuck Jonesian, sometimes Tashlinesque, and sometimes of a bitter Nietzschean guffawltery, as in the fourth episode, "All Gold Canyon," starring Tom Waits as a gravel-voiced prospector in virgin land not merely unknown to white settlers but uninhabited by indigenous people as well.
We were warned about strange men who might try to lure us into cars or lorries, though it took us years to work out that "strange" did not mean "bizarre," "hunchbacked," "dribbling," "goitered"—or however we defined strangeness but merely "unknown to us".
It is not merely unknown so far, or merely unknown by certain knowers but known by others: it is by nature unknowable -- it would be unknowable even to an omniscient observer.
Succumb to ugly logic, to mean-spirited reason, or religion, and you, believing you shun merely the unknown, will flee unwittingly from beauty.
Suggesting that olfactory signals do not contain navigational information, but merely activate an unknown 'non-olfactory map system', Jorge et al., deny even this remaining sensory basis of pigeon homing and thus drop back to a zero point of any understanding of goal-oriented avian navigation.
For this book contains 220 color plates of life-forms whose existence was unknown not merely to Pliny but to anyone at all until the modern development of submersibles capable of plunging to depths that are the inverse of a Mount Everest.
Actually such terms are merely an allocation of unknown or undeterminable risk.
Not Merely Because of the Unknown That Was Stalking Toward Them, Jenny Boully (Tarpaulin Sky Press, 2011).
On the contrary, as the New York Times recently reported, U.S. officials say drones are targeting unknown individuals merely because they're military-age males found in a strike zone.
