Sentence examples for was merely having from inspiring English sources

But Mr. Arif was merely having a good joke.

Kitty Chiller, the Australian Olympic mission chief, insisted Bogut was merely having some fun.

"It was merely having a bit more data on one guy," Chris Huston, the publisher of HeismanPundit.com, said of the voters' thinking.

The defense says Mr. Peterson was merely having a fling with Ms. Frey and was probably framed by murderous thugs trying to extort money from him.

A couple of years ago, Guide editor and former Edinburgh award judge Paul MacInnes suggested that the sketch, while not dead in the water, was merely having a little nap.

Icis, owned by Reed Business Information (RBI), says that Street was not working for the company at the time and was merely having a personal conversation with Milne, an energy industry contact.

You're merely having an adventure holiday by proxy.

They say they are merely having sex with gays.

Tesco's finance director recently suggested that they were merely having a "moment in the sun".

One hopes, a little wanly, that the prime minister is merely having a tantrum as part of the grieving process, preparatory to moving on from "anger" to "acceptance".

In other words, the vast majority of Chicagoans — particularly those who rely on the public schools — disagree with the Tribune's notion that teachers are merely having a "tantrum".