MERE in a Sentence
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297 example sentences for MERE, such as:
1. The trial was a mere farce.
2. A mere child cannot do the work of a man.
3. Happiness lies not in the mere possession of money.
4. Whether or not he will get the job is mere speculation.
5. The mere mention of John had touched a very raw nerve indeed.
2. A mere child cannot do the work of a man.
3. Happiness lies not in the mere possession of money.
4. Whether or not he will get the job is mere speculation.
5. The mere mention of John had touched a very raw nerve indeed.
Search Quotes from Classic Book Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen |
Meanings and Examples of MERE
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mere
a. being nothing more than specified
n. a small pond of standing water
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1 I've told you all I know myself now, for the rest is mere surmise and conjecture.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context Highlight In PART I: CHAPTER IV. WHAT JOHN RANCE HAD TO TELL
Context Highlight In PART I: CHAPTER IV. WHAT JOHN RANCE HAD TO TELL
2 The mere sight of an official-looking person seals men's lips.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context Highlight In PART I: CHAPTER VI. TOBIAS GREGSON SHOWS WHAT HE CAN DO
Context Highlight In PART I: CHAPTER VI. TOBIAS GREGSON SHOWS WHAT HE CAN DO
3 It can't be a coincidence," he cried, at last springing from his chair and pacing wildly up and down the room; "it is impossible that it should be a mere coincidence.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context Highlight In PART I: CHAPTER VII. LIGHT IN THE DARKNESS
Context Highlight In PART I: CHAPTER VII. LIGHT IN THE DARKNESS
4 We want something more than mere theory and preaching now, though.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context Highlight In PART I: CHAPTER VII. LIGHT IN THE DARKNESS
Context Highlight In PART I: CHAPTER VII. LIGHT IN THE DARKNESS
5 The mere knowing of his name is a small thing, however, compared with the power of laying our hands upon him.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context Highlight In PART I: CHAPTER VII. LIGHT IN THE DARKNESS
Context Highlight In PART I: CHAPTER VII. LIGHT IN THE DARKNESS
6 No doubt it appeared to you to be a mere trampled line of slush, but to my trained eyes every mark upon its surface had a meaning.
7 Still, on going up the principal staircase--there was another, a mere ladder at the back for the servants--there was a portrait.
8 It's not to be denied that one of 'em has left her sphere, has shot, has eloped, to put it plainly, with the entrails of a time-piece, the mere pendulum of a grandfather's clock.'
9 It was a night of little ease to his toiling mind, toiling in mere darkness and besieged by questions.
10 A dismal screech, as of mere animal terror, rang from the cabinet.
11 Others will follow, others will outstrip me on the same lines; and I hazard the guess that man will be ultimately known for a mere polity of multifarious, incongruous, and independent denizens.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
Context Highlight In CHAPTER HENRY JEKYLL'S FULL STATEMENT OF THE CASE
Context Highlight In CHAPTER HENRY JEKYLL'S FULL STATEMENT OF THE CASE
12 It is a mere question of figures, a case of simple arithmetic.
13 His short-cropped hair might have been a mere continuation of the sandy freckles on his forehead and face.
14 Some purpose or other is so natural to every one, that a mere loiterer always looks and feels remarkable.
15 She reclined, propped up, from mere habit, on a couch: as nearly in her old usual attitude, as anything so helpless could be kept in.
Example Sentence: (87 in 6 pages)
1 With the Cold War almost over, the talks were a mere formality.
2 It was mere waste of breath to argue with a person in so unreasonable a state of mind.
3 A mere fraction of available wind energy is currently utilized.
4 The trial was a mere farce.
5 We, the rustling leaves, have a voice that answers the storms, but who are you so silent " I am a mere flower.
6 Whether or not he will get the job is mere speculation.
7 All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy; all play and no work makes Jack a mere boy.
8 She had that indefinable something that went beyond mere sex appeal.
9 A mere child cannot do the work of a man.
10 We don't consider our customers to be mere consumers; we consider them to be our friends.
11 There is more to good health than the mere absence of disease.
12 Happiness lies not in the mere possession of money.
13 The mere presence of children in the room is enough to upset him.
14 The mere fact of being poor makes such children criminals in the eyes of the police.
15 The mere mention of John had touched a very raw nerve indeed.