1. She hesitated for the merest fraction of a second.

2. The merest little noise makes him nervous.

3. The merest noise is enough to wake her.

4. The merest mention of seafood makes her feel sick.

5. The merest hint of criticism makes him defensive.

6. The merest noise is enough to wake him.

7. By not the merest flicker of an eyelid did he betray his interest.

8. She'd never received the merest hint of any communication from him.

8. try its best to collect and build good sentences.

9. The merest simpleton could draw the conclusion.

10. It seems the merest flash since Jack and I were gingerly bringing home our own babies from the maternity wards.

11. The curtains were partly open, allowing the merest glimmer of moonlight to creep in.

12. There was the merest hint of vulnerability in the urgency of his need for her.

13. Yet it is the merest hint of hope in a story of otherwise unbroken tragedy.

14. You only need type the merest hint of innuendo into a search engine to come face to face with a porno advert.

15. And about the closed lips is the merest hint of a Mona Lisa smile.

16. Stock prices dropped at the merest rumor of a company takeover.

17. The merest action I managed to take seemed infinitely long in completing.

18. He made her feel incredibly feminine; the merest touch of his fingers transported her to ecstasies she had never before experienced.

19. The weather was warm and sunny, with the merest hint of a breeze.

20. Neither of my children showed the merest inclination to follow me into journalism or television.

21. He was shirtless, had the merest hint of a moustache and smiled easily.

22. The merest sliver of it upon the tongue of the Supplicant will make him or her forget all the horrors they are enduring, and deliver them to a place of paradisiacal calm.

23. Whenever there was a gap in the traffic the merest pressure on the accelerator was enough to close it.

24. The team manager has been quick to clamp down on the merest hint of complacency.

25. As a political entity feminism had less clout than the merest lobby.

26. There must be some truth, after all, in the rant of the poets about the heartlessness and fickleness of women, although he had always been used to consider it the merest bosh.

27. Tess's attention was thus attracted to the dairyman's interlocutor, of whom she could see but the merest patch, owing to his burying his head so persistently in the flank of the milcher.

28. In the moment when I looked into the cave a little elfin starfish hung down, suspended by the merest thread, perhaps by only a single tube foot.