Sentence examples for were but another from inspiring English sources

The bureaucratic enemies of yesteryear are still the knaves and fools they were, but another class of adversaries is now in the docket — the writers who stepped into the breach without sufficient knowledge or authority.

Cotton Mather called New England before it was settled a "howling wilderness". Asked to investigate Salem's alleged witches, Mather concluded in his book, "On Witchcraft" (1692): "Evening wolves" (werewolves and witches) were but another of the devil's tests as New England passed from "wilderness" to the "promised land". And that attitude has persisted.

Secrecy is but another word for fear.

Or else it would be but another branch of science.

In that sense immigration is but another form of trade.

Bitcoin is but another case in point.

For Mounir, this is but another hallucination.

But toilets were another matter.

But is there another way?

But is he another Paula Deen?

Insurance is another option but tread carefully.