Sentence for merely | Use merely in a sentence

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• Rhoda merely smiled. (10)
• Nataly could merely observe. (10)
• He was merely a saving old man. (10)
• She merely raised her eyes to mine. (1)
• The question is merely one of time. (9)
• I have merely stolen sooner than starve. (8)
• He treated her body merely; whereas the Rev. (10)
• He considered it a merely strange occurrence. (10)
• To Marianne, he merely bowed and said nothing. (4)
• I am now asking merely for general information. (9)
• Heriot was merely reported guilty of insolence. (10)
• Stephen merely clapped both elbows against his sides. (10)
• Was it merely to ride to Longbourn and be embarrassed? (4)
• Master Gammon merely showed his spirit to be negative. (10)
• The man has become merely a whirling object, mostly legs. (1)
• Are not both, in fact, merely flower of author true to himself? (8)
• But to be silent was to be merely an obedient hound of the whip. (10)
• After all, she has merely asked Clementina to pass the winter with her. (9)
• Force is painful and futile, and merely recoils against him who uses it. (12)
• I merely say it will be against my hopes and judgment if she marries you. (8)
• At Weimar he had taken to his bed and merely escaped from it with his life. (9)
• He complained in his heart merely that her voice had become so unpleasant. (22)
• There is health, not merely in her bloom, but in her air, her head, her glance. (4)
• He would not avow that he was in an agony: it was merely a desire for exercise. (10)
• But it was merely the mental inquiry following a glance at mud-spots on the coat. (10)
• I thought our judgments were given us merely to be subservient to those of neighbours. (4)
• The hospitality which was constant at either house was not merely of the worldly sort. (9)
• Their value to a circus rests not merely upon the attraction of their ring exhibition. (21)
• Many suppose that you merely wanted to see Dmitri Sheltov, who fired at the Grand Duke. (12)
• The rebel forces would then be merely local bands, and the commanders partisan leaders. (18)
• He called to Vernon, who merely nodded while leaving the room by the window with Crossjay. (10)
• She was about to speak, but she caught her breath without doing so, and merely stared at him. (9)
• She conceived it to be neither sublime nor generous: not even good; merely her peculiar duty. (10)
• He keeps his eyes on her all the time, but that may be merely an effort to divine her character. (9)
• He said so, and Diana remarked it of him, speaking as, a wife who merely noted a characteristic. (10)
• We must avoid them, and keep them merely as a pensive colour in our own vivid memories of Saratoga. (9)
• It had seemed merely ordinary good judgment to go where he should not be hampered by a clouded past. (13)
• That thing had led him on from the beginning; she had merely got her come-uppings, when all was said. (9)
• He is not a contemptible man before the world; he is merely a very narrow one under close inspection. (10)
• It merely means that we shall have to do without friends, and society, and things, especially things. (13)
• The captain made no effort to perplex her tactics, merely saying that he should call in a day or two. (10)
• His features took a more cordial smile to convince me that the dismissing sentence was merely playful. (10)
• It will readily be conceived that I could not carry this huge package on my own, merely human, shoulders. (2)
• Like him, they revolted against the inanities of the old Italian opera, which was merely a singing-concert. (3)
• Is this story about pre-engaged affections merely a got up thing, to try the force of my attachment for her? (6)
• It meant merely that he would soon fall to writing letters like this, and he could not expect an answer to it. (10)
• The eyes were no longer merely luminous points; they looked into his own with a meaning, a malign significance. (1)
• A feeling of hostility instantly sprang up in Shelton; he looked at his little host, who, however, merely blinked. (8)
• And suddenly it flashed across him that Hughs had merely dogged her to see that she had no assignation with anybody. (8)
• I told them I was acting in the interests of every one and could not be deterred by merely material considerations. (12)
• This pleasure came often from some vital phrase, or merely the inspired music of a phrase quite apart from its meaning. (9)
• It occurred to him that Hart might be merely hinting politely for an advance in salary, but he dismissed the suspicion. (13)
• Mr. Orson had the effect of pricking up his ears, though it was in fact merely a gleam of light that came into his eyes. (9)
• In him, though he was as passive as Master Gammon, the farmer beheld merely a stupefied old man, and not a steady machine. (10)
• I merely called, because I would not pass the door without inquiring after Mrs. Bates; but I have been so pleasantly detained! (4)
• When she turned to the shore she saw him advancing, but did not recognize; when they met she merely looked with wide parted lips. (10)
• Merely to have been differently circumstanced in time did not seem enough; and I think Nature would have been puzzled to answer me. (9)
• When realism becomes false to itself, when it heaps up facts merely, and maps life instead of picturing it, realism will perish too. (9)
• I felt myself as if in the forest again, merely wondering at the growth of the trees, and the narrowness of my vision in those days. (10)
• Mrs. Lander merely remarked that the Venetians seemed great for gaping, and Clementina was for the most part innocent of their stare. (9)
• Sir Purcell merely reiterated his demand for the promise, which was ultimately snarled to him; whereupon he retired, joy on his features. (10)
• They came sharp as fencing-thrusts; and you could really believe, if you liked, that they were merely stating grounds for diverse opinions. (10)
• Mrs. Weston proposed having no regular supper; merely sandwiches, &c., set out in the little room; but that was scouted as a wretched suggestion. (4)
• Rather it helped him and supplied that consciousness of dignity which might have forsaken him had he regarded himself merely as a business agent. (14)
• I was merely imagining the possible resources of invention in providing for the increase of advertising while guarding the integrity of the planet. (9)
• There is nothing violent about it; no shock is given; Hope is not abruptly strangled, but merely dreams of evil, and fights with gradually stifling shadows. (10)
• And the publisher—to consider his interests again for a moment—would gain not merely by the suppression of useless, but by the discipline of spoiled, writers. (16)
• His plight was more desperate than mine, for I had resembled the condemned before the firing-party, to whom the expected bullet brings a merely physical shock. (10)

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