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How to use merely in a sentence

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He doesn't say a word, merely nodding in acknowledgement of Stephen's greeting.
By now, his hostile rhetoric has carried him beyond the self-discipline of consistency, and he becomes merely quarrelsome and captious.
The second point, my Lord, is that merely being offered some nebulous assurance at this stage provides absolutely no comfort whatsoever.
The physician merely waves an electronic wand in front of the patient's chest.
Nor is it merely that their absorption into domesticity makes functional sense in a commercial and industrial society.
Courts are not supposed to decide questions which are merely moot, theoretical, abstract or hypothetical.
Other participants see the education battle as merely the front of the Party's war on tradition.
The difference between God and man must be qualitative, not merely quantitative.
This wasn't a real football drill, where the banging of heads can make one's teeth chatter or develop headaches in those merely watching.
Inspectors would not aim to reward excellence or to measure quality, merely to identify incompetence or fraud.
They are also very expensive, which is merely unfortunate since, like intaglios and Abyssinian cats, they are infinitely desirable.
I merely thought that Raczysnki was warming the crowd up for the inevitable madness to come.
I left the theatre, not raging at a failed masterpiece, but merely feeling a little jaded and nonplussed.
He withdrew the move, and made another, claiming that he was merely adjusting the pieces on the board.
Each time it is returned, he merely washes it thoroughly and wears it again.
Incidentally, the waterboard in these photos wasn't merely one among many torture devices highlighted at the prison museum.
He stressed that all times he was merely forwarding queries and requests from the man's sister.
The developments were not, however, in new types of clock, merely in improved designs of sundials and water clocks.
Consequently, Chalk should not be perceived as merely a thick pelagic ooze deposited in a tectonically quiescent period.
He merely jerked her forward so that she was much closer to him than she would ever like to be.
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