Sentence examples for ones of mere from inspiring English sources

The lives denied them are not ones of mere survival but ones of intimacy, loyalty, and joy.

Then seeing him on The New Girl, trying to save a relationship, even one of mere characters on a show he liked hearing him say, "Anything beautiful is worth getting hurt for".

The strike had an air of inevitability about it – the question was one of mere timing.

Do we want to pretend that the problem is one of mere abstract numbers — scientific data, spreadsheets?

Don't expect Portland to make a huge jump this year, which seems set to be a water treading one of mere existence.

"Already at home" read the headline in the Guardian, while Brian Moore in the Times was particularly effusive about Leicester's showing, writing the performance "suggests more a coming season of achievement than one of mere survival".

He was a fearless bucking bronco of a forward who with ease and great delight tore through teams at will to ensure their challenge became one of mere damage limitation.

The protest was one of mere presence, rather than any specific activity: a few people held signs, and every now and then a chant broke out, but the main political statement of the day was simply showing up.

By Anthony Armstrong The New Yorker, June 6 , 1931P. 42 I walked up the steep slopes of Montmartre and sank into one of Mere Catherine's little chairs in the sunny Place du Tertre.

This is significant because the Internet engenders a different type of democracy: not one of mere expression, but one of ideas.

The issue, arguably one of mere semantics, could be seen to run in deeper channels, extending to the view we favor of our place in the natural world.