Sentence examples for that was but from inspiring English sources

Nay, that was but Sarcasm!

"What a game that was, but it reminded me of Joël Bats.

To be fair, that was but the first step in the Tuono's push to the forefront of so-called streetfighter bikes.

The meaning of that may have been profound in its original form (whatever that was), but rendered thus it seems, if not gobbledegook, then pretty obvious.

"People said what a bloody cynical and churlish response that was – but the prospect of being away for four to five months is not necessarily very appealing.

Now the dust has settled, I can see not only what a conventional teen to twentysomething trajectory that was, but also how much I owe him.

"As is typical for many autodidacts, Hitler believed he knew better than specialists… and treated them with an arrogance that was but the reverse of his own limited horizons," the author writes.

Moreover, many young firms can tap into a thriving online-advertising market that was but a dream when the dotcom boom turned to bust.Today's entrepreneurs also have a deeper understanding of the industries they are trying to transform, says Nick Beim of Matrix Partners, a venture-capital firm.

They're connected with a past that was but no longer is their own.

Never mind the Republican pessimism that seems to mix well with the nostalgia for the greatness of an America that was but is no longer (the Republicans).

This iconic image is to painting what Lord Alfred Douglas's famous sonnet was later to be to fin-de-siècle literature: a declaration of a kind of sexual desire that was - but would shortly no longer be - stifled.