Sentence examples for used merely from inspiring English sources

Freedom is used merely as a bargaining chip.

Knights used merely to have to slay the odd dragon.

When informed that it was used merely for trysts, he arched his eyebrows in rascally fashion.

Yet that important ecclesiastical convocation was not used merely as a backdrop for scenic marvels.

But prosecutors said bounty hunting was used merely as a ruse to ransack Mr. Foote's house.

Too often, indicators (eg on total water use) are limited, and are used merely in a tick box fashion.

If it is used merely to teach students how to mimic middle-class behaviors, then some of the criticism may be justified.

Moreover, safety Shaun Williams, the other Giants' first-round pick (1998) during Fassel's reign, has been used merely as a part-time nickel back.

There is the slaughter at Clear Lake, California, of grebes and gulls, poisoned by a pesticide used merely to eradicate a harmless gnat.

He probably understood far earlier than Gorbachev that perestroika, once unleashed, could not be used merely to dabble with reform of the communist system.

The writer says that the "true story" is used merely as a taking-off place for the movie-makers' sadomasochistic and homerotic imaginations.