1) Mere words will not fill a bushel. 

2) Happiness lies not in the mere possession of money ; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort. 

3) His writing has been dismissed as mere intellectual posturing.

4) It took her a mere 20 minutes to win.

5) We are mere pawns in the struggle for power.

6) After the fire the house was a mere shell.

7) They are always yammering about mere details.

8) The plane crashed mere minutes after take-off.

9) They were mere apprentices to piracy.

10) He seemed so young, a mere boy.

11) She lost the election by a mere 20 votes.

12) The mere thought of flying fills me with panic.

13) The trial was a mere farce.

14) She had that indefinable something that went beyond mere sex appeal.

15) The mere presence of children in the room is enough to upset him.

16) A mere child cannot do the work of a man.

17) That is mere supposition!

18) A mere 2% of their budget has been spent on publicity.

19) The mere fact of being poor makes such children criminals in the eyes of the police.

20) Happiness lies not in the mere possession of money. It lies in the joy of achievement,[http:///mere.html] in the thrill of creative effort.

21) A mere fraction of available wind energy is currently utilized.

22) Your acceptance into the club will be a mere formality.

23) Mere words won't help.

24) There is more to good health than the mere absence of disease.

25) All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy; all play and no work makes Jack a mere boy. 

26) Whether or not he will get the job is mere speculation.

27) With the Cold War almost over, the talks were a mere formality.

28) You've got the job. The interview will be a mere formality.

29) We, the rustling leaves, have a voice that answers the storms, but who are you so silent " I am a mere flower.

30) One who has seen the ocean thinks nothing of mere rivers.

1) His writing has been dismissed as mere intellectual posturing.

2) It took her a mere 20 minutes to win.

3) After the fire the house was a mere shell.

4) The plane crashed mere minutes after take-off.

5) He seemed so young, a mere boy.

6) She lost the election by a mere 20 votes.

7) The mere thought of flying fills me with panic.

8) Whether or not he will get the job is mere speculation.

9) She had that indefinable something that went beyond mere sex appeal.

10) The mere presence of children in the room is enough to upset him.

11) A mere child cannot do the work of a man.

12) That is mere supposition!

13) A mere 2% of their budget has been spent on publicity.

14) The mere fact of being poor makes such children criminals in the eyes of the police.

15) A mere fraction of available wind energy is currently utilized.

16) With the Cold War almost over, the talks were a mere formality.

17) You've got the job. The interview will be a mere formality.

18) Your acceptance into the club will be a mere formality.

19) There is more to good health than the mere absence of disease.

20) The mere mention of the words "heart failure", can conjure up, to the layman, the prospect of imminent death.

21) The committee is a mere appendage of the council and has no power of its own.

22) She's a mere child.

23) Some cynics say that sport is a mere instrument of capitalist domination.

24) We don't consider our customers to be mere consumers; we consider them to be our friends.

25) The stream had thinned down to a mere trickle.

26) She married a foreigner for mere lucre.

27) The suppression of the revolt took a mere two days.

28) The President's visit to the slums was a mere pose.

29) These little local firms are mere small fry compared with huge international companies.

30) Growth in the Gross Domestic Product ( GDP ) decelerated significantly, from 10.5 per cent in real terms in 2000 to a mere 0.1 per cent in 2001.

31) The mere mention of the words "heart failure", can conjure up, to the layman, the prospect of imminent death.

32) The committee is a mere appendage of the council and has no power of its own.

33) The mere mention of the subject set the whole company by the ears.

34) Australia was a mere couple of hours away by jet.

35) That is a mere repetition of what you said before.

36) She's a mere child.

37) Some cynics say that sport is a mere instrument of capitalist domination.

38) I have been relegated to the role of a mere assistant.

39) It's true that we have been leading a difficult life, for we need not only to be under various external pressures, but also to be in the face of internal perplexities.You would be affected by the warmth of life if someone gives you an understanding look during your bitter struggle.Even a mere glance would make you moved and inpired.

40) We don't consider our customers to be mere consumers; we consider them to be our friends.

41) It is a mere trifle.

42) The cost is a mere fleabite.

43) It's a mere waste of time waiting any longer.

44) Her liberal views were soon revealed as mere posturing.

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45) Acceleration to 60 mph takes a mere 5.7 seconds.

46) His failure in history examination was a mere fluke.

47) His mere presence made her feel afraid.

48) The mere existence of these strange creatures fascinated him.

49) $1 000 is a mere trifle to her.

50) The mere thought of flying turns her over.

51) All this is mere hypothesis.

52) They were mere puppets manipulated by other men.

53) Your hopes of promotion are a mere delusion.

54) What he has said is a mere commonplace.

55) Such things are not for mere mortals like ourselves.

56) The ship was a mere speck on the horizon.

57) He's not a mere boxer: he's world champion.

58) The king was a mere puppet of the mayor.

59) The mere thought of eating made him feel sick.

60) The mere sight of snakes makes my flesh creep.

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61) The mere thought of lice makes my head itch.

62) It is a mere matter of time.

63) The mere thought of food made her feel sick.

64) The stream had thinned down to a mere trickle.

65) He swung from mere indifference to outright scorn.

66) He dismissed what had happened as a mere peccadillo.

67) It cost a mere trifle.

68) He's a mere cipher in the company.

69) The mere thought of it makes me feel ill.

70) He is a mere machine.

71) A thousand pounds is a mere bagatelle to him.

72) The mere sight of food turned her stomach.

73) We discredited the story as mere rumour.

74) It cost a mere twenty dollars.

75) He dismissed the story as mere rumor.

76) She married a foreigner for mere lucre.

77) The mere sight of her sitting there made his heart beat faster.

78) He greeted us with a mere twitch of his head.

79) The prime minister was a mere tool in the hands of the country's president.

80) The suppression of the revolt took a mere two days.

81) The stream is reduced to a mere trickle in summer.

82) Sixty per cent of teachers are women,[sentence dictionary] but a mere 5 percent of women are heads and deputies.

83) This book offers a distillation of Wittgenstein's thought in a mere fifty pages.

84) It was mere waste of breath to argue with a person in so unreasonable a state of mind.

85) The mere mention of John had touched a very raw nerve indeed.

86) He's a mere child.

87) He treats his wife as no more than a mere appendage.

88) Is his promotion evidence of the minorities' advance, or mere tokenism?

89) It can't be a mere coincidence that they left at the same time.

90) Would you classify her novels as serious literature or as mere entertainment?

91) The government is in danger of becoming a mere puppet of the military.

92) The trials were a mere farce since no judges were present at all.

93) The President's visit to the slums was a mere pose.

94) His speech was dismissed as mere rhetoric by the opposition.

95) The boss kissed the other performers off as mere amateurs.

96) The incident seems destined to become a mere footnote in history.

97) To her employers she was a mere cipher, with no human feelings at all.

98) I wouldn't go to London for the mere purpose of buying a new tie.

99) I just assumed you were a mere mortal like the rest of us.

100) They said the interview was just a formality/a mere formality, as they've already given me the job.

101) He already knows he has the job so the interview is a mere formality.

102) The mere sight of him makes me want to scream.

103) Mere words, unaccompanied by any violence, cannot amount to an assault.

104) It does not belong to a mere fallible human being to question the ways of divine providence.

104) is a online sentence dictionary, on which you can find good sentences for a large number of words.

105) The interim government is a mere cipher for military rule.

106) The mere fact that they were prepared to talk was encouraging.

107) It is mere surmise that Bosch had Brant's poem in mind when doing this painting.

108) He flung himself down in the flat submissive posture of a mere supplicant.

109) He played off a mere stone as a genuine gem upon customers.

110) It is too early to say whether the threats are mere sabre-rattling.

111) He is a mere nobody, and it is mere a matter of time for people to recognize him.

112) The flood of offers of help had dwindled to a mere trickle.

113) His tumultuous triumph 5 years ago now seems a mere footnote in history.

114) The mere fact that the talks are continuing is a positive sign.

115) Nausea and tiredness were mere pinpricks compared to the emotional pain she was feeling.

116) One official dismissed the ceasefire as a mere propaganda exercise.

117) The American came from behind to snatch victory by a mere eight seconds.

118) These little local firms are mere small fry compared with huge international companies.

119) She never wore perfume, considering it to be mere frippery.

120) The mere mention of food had triggered off hunger pangs.

121) The police officers guarding the door let in the celebrities, but they prevented us lesser/mere mortals from going inside.

122) The mere fact of your being there will arouse their suspicions.

123) I can't talk about that experience.The mere thought strikes terror into me!

124) It took her a mere 20 minutes to dispose of her opponent.

125) Growth in the Gross Domestic Product decelerated significantly, from 10.5 per cent in real terms in 2000 to a mere 0.1 per cent in 2001.

126) Growth in the Gross Domestic Product ( GDP ) decelerated significantly, from 10.5 per cent in real terms in 2000 to a mere 0.1 per cent in 2001.

127) The initial conflict was a mere sideshow compared with the World War that followed.

128) It cost a mere bagatelle.

129) No warning bells chimed in this mere mortal mind.

130) You become cause and effect rather than mere effect.

131) This was true civil disobedience rather than mere non-co-operation.

132) They are mere apologists for the existing system.

133) How could a mere machine control itself?

134) These were Realists and not mere copyists.

135) But he was not content with mere physical compliance.

136) But Gassee was no mere blowhard.

137) What the former valued as a proper earthiness and sensuality,[] the latter condemned as mere vulgarity.

138) Mere words could do little in the short term to reverse the chaotic situation.

139) Miracles can be worked by Him alone, although mere mortals may entreat Him by prayer to perform them on their behalf.

140) After all, you are a creative genius and these characters are mere socialites.

141) The shimmering cascade became a mere backdrop for a circus act.

142) And, in greater detail, he tells how rock became a mere commodity in the billion-dollar music industry.

143) A mere fraction of the population shared in the cultural revolution.

144) For such a man to assault the Government citadel, garrisoned by aristocrats, and buttressed by wealth, seemed mere madness.

145) A penchant for setting oneself apart and above mere mortals.

146) But, in time, even the colonial masters were overthrown in their cricketing dominance by mere colonials.

147) First Jonathan, which had been, in retrospect, a mere blemish on the horizon.

148) The tradition that you came from often looked askance at constitutions, regarding them as mere pieces of paper.

149) It can often arise even when people are a mere few pounds overweight.

150) Only because we see them as mere breeds are they confined within a single Latin name.

151) You are a mere picture editor, a workman, whose views on editorial staff are of no account.

152) Too much and too long, we seem to have surrendered community excellence and community values in the mere accumulation of material things. Robert F. Kennedy 

153) A mere two minutes passed before Cooks was celebrating again in the end zone, this time after a 32-yard punt return.

154) The dragon, gliding across its vast emptiness, was a mere gilded fly in a banqueting hall.

155) Jobs requiring mere brawn are dwindling, replaced by lower-paid jobs requiring skill, education and a high degree of interpersonal polish.

156) When you consider life as a whole, intelligence is a mere bristle on the hog.

157) It is not a mere matter of citizenship; it is a birthright and a shared inheritance.

158) For a mere $ 10 more, enjoy all of the above and a late-night breakfast buffet after the midnight balloon drop.

159) Mere discriminations on account of race or color were not regarded as badges of slavery.

160) Another mere coincidence, say school officials, adding that Tarkanian was adamant about having such a watchdog on staff.

161) Yet body language often tells us so much more than mere words.

162) The mere brute pleasure of reading - the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing. Lord Chesterfield 

163) He has aired radio ads in Iowa, whose caucuses are a mere three years away.

164) Three or four years old, a mere toddler, a boy with golden curls gathering blue flowers.

165) What is involved is the construction of something qualitatively different from the mere sum of the national organizations.

166) Edward was far more, however, than a mere passive conduit for funds.

167) No one likes to be made to look like a mere creature of chance.

168) Total absorption in his passion could submerge him far below the surface of mere time.

169) Turquoise, originally considered a mere by-product of copper mining, was vigorously promoted by Waddell's father, B.C.

170) That boosted his income last year by a mere ￡1,550, all of which he paid to charity.

171) Happiness is not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort. Franklin D. Roosevelt 

172) For classifications involve considerations of reason and policy over and above mere empirical data.

173) Males, it seems, are not mere conduits for genes between females.

174) The employees are the real test of whether an involvement program is substantive and effective or mere hyperbole and atmospherics.

175) A mere 18 months ago members of his International Olympic Committee stood accused of taking bribes.

176) A mere seventy air-miles or so away, a major battle was being conducted in the province of Phuoc Long.

177) Logic suggests this can not be reduced to mere coincidence.

178) Mere seconds later, the world's most malicious pigeon crapped on my head.

179) Jenks believed international organizations were not mere conference secretariats, but should be active participants in shaping the postwar world.

180) I don't like work - no man does - but I like what is in the work - the chance to find yourself. Your own reality - for yourself not for others - what no other man can ever know. They can only see the mere show, and never can tell what it really means. Joseph Conrad 

181) They show us the type of daily classroom work that takes students beyond mere coverage and passivity.

182) There are constant reminders that we, too, are animal beings and part of nature, not mere observers.

183) I didn't tell him about the handbill I had found; indeed, I quickly dismissed that as a mere coincidence.

184) Telemachus they treated with amused contempt as if he were a mere boy and quite beneath their notice.

185) It has happened too often to me to be mere coincidence.

186) Its mere arrival on the scene will not assure a revolution in education or in politics.

187) In any case, the mere word was anathema to her, she thought fiercely.

188) It regarded them as mere jetsam, to be banished from the world like delinquents or the incorrigibly idle.

189) With some kinds of solo song, or even operatic aria, the accompaniment should be a mere background murmur.

190) The mere sight of him was enough to make McAllister's toes curl.

191) The Ego was designed as a mere postal service which delivers messages to our conscious mind.

192) Have your dream...What you need now more than anything is discipline. Cast off mere words. Words turn into stone. Haruki Murakami 

193) This is a mere stumble compared with the near 50% fall during the mid-1970s bear market.

194) In college, female athletes now make up one-third of all sports competitors,[http:///mere.html] instead of a mere 15 percent.

195) Some of the four million annual visitors seem to find the mere ascent insufficiently fulfilling.

196) It was not mere public relations, but a paper with near-mystical historical antecedents.

197) Murder, rape and other hate crimes could be a mere provocation away.

198) When your mother asks, 'Do you want a piece of advice?' it is a mere formality. It doesn't matter if you answer yes or no. You're going to get it anyway. Erma Bombeck 

199) However, mere financial considerations are far beneath a work of art like this.

200) It should provide a readable condensation of the recent literature: a critical appraisal, not a mere catalogue.

201) A further example of abstract form which is not mere pattern is Tantric art.

202) Mere negligence on the part of the recipient with respect to the safe custody of the thing will not make him liable.

203) Power requires a wider appeal than that to mere sectional interest.

204) Those we recall with greatest fondness, all cut their figures against a wider, more luminous backdrop than mere office.

205) A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 

206) The women are strong characters, but the men in this movie are mere ciphers.

207) But a share is something far more than a mere contractual right in personam.

208) The existence of organisms still living after millenia make mere centenarians seem insignificant.

209) It set up a moaning background noise that would occasionally gust into prominence, then lapse again to mere accompaniment.

210) Most teams have mere men playing that position, which gives Cleveland an extraordinary advantage.

211) Against the first objection, I hope to show in this chapter that the conceptual distinction is far from mere pedantry.

212) The Bible is a mass of fables and traditions, mere mythology. Mark Twain 

213) But the two characters are no mere mouthpieces for the state and the individual conscience.

214) Mere nuclear bombs would do little to halt life in general, and might, in fact, increase the nonhuman versions.

215) He is also, by mere association with drug charges, a cliche.

216) This would be such a female as our already seriously humbled hero could not manhandle as mere booty.

217) He is not short. Can you believe that such perfection is mere happenstance?

218) Today the Opposition revealed themselves as dinosaurs because they acted as mere apologists for the old established order.

219) Beyond mere rhetoric, Church leaders have skillfully capitalized on their formidable influence in Catholic countries.

220) This is more than a mere breach of the implied condition that goods should comply with the contract description.

221) Mere passive knowledge will not be sufficient: actual involvement in the contravention must be established.