[
US
/ˈmɪɹɫi/
]
[ UK /mˈiəli/ ]
[ UK /mˈiəli/ ]
ADVERB
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and nothing more
it is simply a matter of time
hopes that last but a moment
I was merely asking
just a scratch
he was only a child
How To Use merely In A Sentence
- Having drop-dead gorgeous, private, windowed offices makes it a lot easier to recruit the kinds of superstars that produce ten times as much as the merely brilliant software developers.
- It's all too easy for me to "pass" and let society define me as merely "kind of Jewish looking"; but I think I should begin to reclaim my heritage while my gran is still alive. I hope when the end comes it is painless
- To believe that Obama is a socialist merely assumes his continued commitment to a world he has long described as his lodestar. Radical-In-Chief
- I was merely commenting how superior the Assos jersey seemed, compared to the other jerseys in my burgeoning collection.
- This so-called ‘prop it’ is a dummy subject, serving merely to fill a structural need in English for a subject in a sentence.
- This stuff doesn't merely placate the listener with predictable, danceable nursery rhymes but lashes out and lacerates the eardrum relentlessly.
- According to FDA officials, the herb stevia can be ‘adulterated’ merely by being in the presence of information that reveals its sweetening property.
- You merely assumed that was the homophone I meant.
- They are not the suits you would actually use: the aim here is simulation, not replication, so they are merely very cumbersome, which is what the real suits would have to be. Home | Mail Online
- Like any 'capo' (mob head), he merely orders the killing. American Mob: Bush's Guns, Goons and GHOULiani In The Wings