We found 122 examples of how to use mere in an English sentence.
Sentences 51 to 75 of 122.
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| 51. | Nobles do not exist merely because there is a peerage system. Even if there were no peerage system, there will be people who are naturally dominant and who will quickly rise to nobility. So much for our nobility then. Why, we are mere peasants. | |
| 52. | We're not gods, but mere men. | |
| 53. | This single reflection will show that the doctrine of redemption is founded on a mere pecuniary idea corresponding to that of a debt which another person might pay. | |
| 54. | We dreamed of five thousand subscribers but instead succeeded with a mere tenth of this number. | |
| 55. | Even though great men flatter themselves with their great accomplishments, they're rarely the result of great planning, but more often of mere chance. | |
| 56. | Mary, even though the daughter of a mere farmer, has manners that betray a distinguished upbringing. | |
| 57. | A language is the foremost expression or artifact of any national culture, hence a language that isn't an expression of any particular heritage, is doomed to remain a mere universalist manifestation devoid of concrete daily usage. | |
| 58. | I'm a mere tourist. | |
| 59. | Esperanto is already a good language for the mere fact that it can distinguish between Man as an individual of humankind, and Man as the male of the species. | |
| 60. | Love is the only reality and it is not a mere sentiment. It is the ultimate truth that lies at the heart of creation. | |
| 61. | It's a mere drop in the ocean. | |
| 62. | These things are mere abstractions. | |
| 63. | Tom said that the mere sight of Mary made him sick. | |
| 64. | Little did he know what was waiting to happen mere hours later... | |
| 65. | "In the depths of our hearts we all experience the Green Ensign; we all feel that it is something more than a mere symbol of a language." | |
| 66. | The mere sight of blood makes him faint. | |
| 67. | To buy books would be a good thing if we could also buy the time to read them; as it is, the mere act of purchasing them is often mistaken for the assimilation and mastering of their contents. | |
| 68. | This is no mere coincidence. | |
| 69. | Happiness lies not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort. | |
| 70. | You live for but a day, a mere blink of the eye in the sands of time. | |
| 71. | Only an utter narcissist could say, mere hours after the coordinated attacks of September 11th, 2001: "My building was the second-tallest in Lower Manhattan, and now it’s the tallest." | |
| 72. | In this great universe of ours man is a mere insect, an ant, in his intellect, as compared with the boundless world about him, as measured by the intelligence capable of grasping the whole of truth and knowledge. | |
| 73. | Through the clear wintry sunshine the bells this morning rang from the gray church tower amid the leafless elms, and up the walk the villagers trooped in their best dresses and their best faces — the latter a little reddened by the sharp wind: mere redness in the middle aged; in the maids, wonderful bloom to the eyes of their lovers — and took their places decently in the ancient pews. | |
| 74. | Let us not attribute to malice and cruelty what may be referred to less criminal motives. Do we not often afflict others undesignedly, and, from mere carelessness, neglect to relieve distress? | |
| 75. | Tom is a mere child. |