Synonym: barely, only, purely, simply. Similar words: severely, sincerely, rely, barely, rely on, purely, mere, entirely. Meaning: ['mɪrlɪ /'mɪəl-] adv. and nothing more.
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121, They agreed to go merely because they were getting paid for it.
122, Her recent speech was merely a restatement of her widely publicised views.
123, The team needs players who want to play cricket for England, not merely any country that will have them.
124, It is no use merely mentioning the fact in passing; it needs to be driven home by emphasis and repetition.
125, I am merely citing his reaction as typical of British industry.
126, We do not have a strategy. We merely respond to ideas from local people.
127, You merely caused a crash by cutting in on me like that!
128, The attack may merely be a ruse by the enemy to distract our forces.
129, The government is merely tinkering at the edges of a much wider problem.
130, I didn't mean to answer back, I merely meant to say that you had been misinformed.
131, For the poorest people, life was merely a matter of survival.
132, When I finally posed the question, 'Why?' he merely shrugged.
133, You don't have to be angry. He merely wanted to know the truth.
134, Of his origins he said very little, merely mentioning in parenthesis that his background was poor.
135, IT is a tool for learning, not merely an end in itself.
136, The king was merely a tool of the military government.
137, The House of Commons can merely say yea or nay to the executive judgment.
138, He believed that her kindness was merely a camouflage for her real intentions.
139, The criticism was merely a warm-up for what is being prepared for the finance minister.
140, He called the new building unoriginal and said that it merely aped the classical traditions.
141, High interest rates are merely a crutch for the country's ailing economy.
142, The main political parties are merely shadow-boxing,[http://sentencedict.com/merely.html] instead of tackling the real economic problems facing this country.
143, His experience spanned not merely politics, but also business and journalism.
144, She merely filled the containers, sealed them with a cork, and pasted on labels.
145, Do, don't merely talk.
146, Stop putting words in my mouth - I didn't say you looked fat in the red dress - I merely said you looked very slim in the black!
147, The Council was merely given a condensed version of what had already been disclosed in Washington.
148, It was Rob's idea. I merely set the wheels in motion .
149, The reforms he claims to have made are in fact merely cosmetic.
150, The peace talks merely highlighted the great gulf in understanding between the two sides.