Sentence examples for to be merely from inspiring English sources

He wants to be merely a good human being?

Trips used to be merely time-consuming.

The precarious balance used to be merely unsettling.

He is too complicated, however, to be merely calculating.

This proves to be merely an amuse bouche.

But it turned out to be merely a cruel tease.

But Woods turned out to be merely a spectator, too.

Was Heaven, then, to be merely another ghetto?

Optimists hope that Mr Putin will prove to be merely a temporary coda to totalitarianism.

So that was the danger — that the story might turn out to be (merely) about that.

Google was nearly five years old, and was thought to be merely a search engine.