Sentence examples for we were mere from inspiring English sources
Our exchange reeked of geopolitical illicitness; we were mere kilometres from the Bridge of Spies, where, during the Cold War, prisoners were traded.
Seated with our backs to the room, we were mere inches from one of those wandering streams, with the beach enticingly visible a little farther beyond.
Still, we were mere sprinters in comparison with viewers of the early work of Ken Campbell (1941-2008), theatre's most persistent thief of time, which included a 22-hour staging of Neil Oram's The Warp, its length exacerbated by the requirement for audiences to be on their feet for much of the action.
And the sharing gave back to us this explosion of riches, the feeling of walking among the gods even if we were mere mortals.
We were mere feet from the athletes as they were preparing for the race and even closer to the course once the race got under way.
This was a particularly chilling question to pose given that we were mere miles away from the Dachau Concentration Camp outside Munich, to which we had an extremely sombre and moving visit shortly after this meeting.
Insofar as this is an argument for incompatibilism, it is an argument for the claim that determinism entails that we are mere links in a causal chain and therefore merely the proximate causes of our choices.
"We're mere custodians," Mr. Black added.
Strip that from us and we are mere animals.
As for the rest of us, we are mere mortals.
