I'm not a real fish, I'm just a mere plushy.

You are no longer a mere child.

Mere decay produces richer life.

The mere sight of a snake makes her sick.

The mere idea of swimming across the river made me tremble.

The mere thought of a snake makes me shiver.

Pets offer us more than mere companionship.

A mere glance is not enough for us to tell one from the other.

Charlie was a mere child when I saw him last.

A mere 529 spectators watched the game.

I think it is a mere coincidence.

That is a mere excuse for idleness.

Those words are mere diplomatic niceties.

The mere thought of it is enough to make me happy.

Computers can be thought of as mere calculating machines.

This generous offer may be a mere pose.

We should bear in mind what is called wisdom is not a mere item of knowledge.

She said that the mere sight of him made her sick.

The mere sight of a dog frightens him.

The mere sight of a dog made her afraid.

Even the finest fete becomes mere hogs swill.

It was a mere chance that I found it.

The mere sight of the doctor made my cousin afraid.

I was scared at the mere thought of it.

The mere thought of her son warmed her heart.

A mere repetition of other people's research cannot be called true scientific research.

His sympathy was mere show.

His talk was a mere game.

He is a mere child.

He works for a mere pittance.

He is a mere nobody.

They are mere creatures of habit.

She is a mere child.

She is a mere child, you know.

She's weak, powerless. A mere human.

Mum, a mere woman surrounded by men, works in a construction company as a site foreman.

According to the "ahl al-haqq" the universe consists of only one substance, and all what we name generations and corruptions, death and life, is a mere combination or dissolution of modes.

The mere sight of a mosquito makes her sick.

A home is more than a mere building.

Robinson considers nature a mere object of scientific study to exploit for his own uses and pleasure.

Quantum physics is too difficult for a mere mortal to understand.

The Christian Religion not only was at first attended with miracles, but even at this day cannot be believed by any reasonable person without one. Mere reason is insufficient to convince us of its veracity.

There is but One who is absolutely by and through himself, — namely, God; and God is not the mere dead conception to which we have thus given utterance, but he is in himself pure Life.

Is it mere coincidence that "banality", when anagrammed, reads "Ban Italy"?

That's a mere mistake.

What's drinking? A mere pause from thinking!

Condillac, with sensationalism, revolutionised the concept of mind, making language and gesture prior to ideas, shattering Locke's conception of language as a mere passive medium.

Mary was wondering whether she counted for Tom as a mere word or as a real person.

The mere existence of infiniteness in the universe would bring about endless contradictions.

This is a mere figment of your imagination.

Nobles do not exist merely because there is a peerage system. Even if there were no peerage system, there will be people who are naturally dominant and who will quickly rise to nobility. So much for our nobility then. Why, we are mere peasants.

We're not gods, but mere men.

This single reflection will show that the doctrine of redemption is founded on a mere pecuniary idea corresponding to that of a debt which another person might pay.

We dreamed of five thousand subscribers but instead succeeded with a mere tenth of this number.

Even though great men flatter themselves with their great accomplishments, they're rarely the result of great planning, but more often of mere chance.

Mary, even though the daughter of a mere farmer, has manners that betray a distinguished upbringing.

A language is the foremost expression or artifact of any national culture, hence a language that isn't an expression of any particular heritage, is doomed to remain a mere universalist manifestation devoid of concrete daily usage.

I'm a mere tourist.

Esperanto is already a good language for the mere fact that it can distinguish between Man as an individual of humankind, and Man as the male of the species.

Love is the only reality and it is not a mere sentiment. It is the ultimate truth that lies at the heart of creation.

It's a mere drop in the ocean.

These things are mere abstractions.

Tom said that the mere sight of Mary made him sick.

Little did he know what was waiting to happen mere hours later...

"In the depths of our hearts we all experience the Green Ensign; we all feel that it is something more than a mere symbol of a language."

The mere sight of blood makes him faint.

To buy books would be a good thing if we could also buy the time to read them; as it is, the mere act of purchasing them is often mistaken for the assimilation and mastering of their contents.

This is no mere coincidence.

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

You live for but a day, a mere blink of the eye in the sands of time.

Only an utter narcissist could say, mere hours after the coordinated attacks of September 11th, 2001: "My building was the second-tallest in Lower Manhattan, and now it’s the tallest."

In this great universe of ours man is a mere insect, an ant, in his intellect, as compared with the boundless world about him, as measured by the intelligence capable of grasping the whole of truth and knowledge.

Through the clear wintry sunshine the bells this morning rang from the gray church tower amid the leafless elms, and up the walk the villagers trooped in their best dresses and their best faces — the latter a little reddened by the sharp wind: mere redness in the middle aged; in the maids, wonderful bloom to the eyes of their lovers — and took their places decently in the ancient pews.

Let us not attribute to malice and cruelty what may be referred to less criminal motives. Do we not often afflict others undesignedly, and, from mere carelessness, neglect to relieve distress?

Tom is a mere child.

We had to struggle with the old enemies of peace—business and financial monopoly, speculation, reckless banking, class antagonism, sectionalism, war profiteering. They had begun to consider the Government of the United States as a mere appendage to their own affairs. We know now that Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob.

All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. All these aspirations are directed toward ennobling man's life, lifting it from the sphere of mere physical existence and leading the individual towards freedom.

He had never been to Spain, but he had a complete toreador's kit—a bargain which he had picked up for a mere song in the Boulevard du Temple.

Though the existence of this phenomenon is currently mere speculation, it is possible that there will be evidence in the future to support it.

It is a little known fact that Tomas Berdych once won a match losing a mere point on serve... only to lose the next match with a bagel.

In English there is a word which means everything "that is fortunate and discovered by accident or mere chance."

How can you, a mere mortal, dare to criticise Tom?

How dare you, a mere mortal, criticise Tom?

How dare you, a mere mortal, presume to criticise Tom?

Even for the mere flight of a butterfly all the sky is necessary.

Around a mere at the end of the valley were gathered the brightly coloured wooden houses of an idyllic little town.

Daphnis is short and puny, with no more beard than a woman, whilst his body is as tawny as a wolf's skin. By living, too, among his goats, he has contracted a goatish smell. And, besides, he is a mere goat-herd, so poor that he has not even enough means to keep a dog of his own.

The mere sight of an official-looking person seals men's lips. These youngsters, however, go everywhere and hear everything.

You have asked me if I know the name of the assassin. I do. The mere knowing of his name is a small thing, however, compared with the power of laying our hands upon him.

Understood in its totality, the spectacle is both the result and the goal of the dominant mode of production. It is not a mere decoration added to the real world. It is the very heart of this real society's unreality. In all of its particular manifestations — news, propaganda, advertising, entertainment — the spectacle represents the dominant model of life. It is the omnipresent affirmation of the choices that have already been made in the sphere of production and in the consumption implied by that production. In both form and content the spectacle serves as a total justification of the conditions and goals of the existing system. The spectacle also represents the constant presence of this justification since it monopolizes the majority of the time spent outside the production process.

A pernicious excitement to learn and play chess has spread all over the country, and numerous clubs for practicing this game have been formed in cities and villages...chess is a mere amusement of a very inferior character, which robs the mind of valuable time that might be devoted to nobler acquirements, while it affords no benefit whatever to the body. Chess has acquired a high reputation as being a means to discipline the mind, but persons engaged in sedentary occupations should never practice this cheerless game; they require out-door exercises--not this sort of mental gladiatorship.

The mere thought of the work awaiting him at home makes Tom tired.

Stop joking around! We waven't just met here by mere coincidence. You've been following me in secret all this time because you suspected me.

"In sight of Troy lies Tenedos, an isle / renowned and rich, while Priam held command, / now a mere bay and roadstead fraught with guile. / Thus far they sailed, and on the lonely strand / lay hid,"

Some Israeli officials say that the Palestinians don't exist and they are mere fiction.

The spectacle cannot be understood as a mere visual deception produced by mass-media technologies. It is a worldview that has actually been materialized, a view of a world that has become objective.

Ortygia's port we leave, and skim the mere; / soon Naxos' Bacchanalian hills appear, / and past Olearos and Donysa, crowned / with trees, and Paros' snowy cliffs we steer. / Far-scattered shine the Cyclades renowned, / and clustering isles thick-sown in many a glittering sound.

Awed by the vision and the voice divine / ('twas no mere dream; their very looks I knew, / I saw the fillets round their temples twine, / and clammy sweat did all my limbs bedew) / forthwith, upstarting, from the couch I flew, / and hands and voice together raised in prayer, / and wine unmixt upon the altars threw. / This done, to old Anchises I repair, / pleased with the rites fulfilled, and all the tale declare.

There was one thing in the case which had made the deepest impression both upon the servants and the police. This was the contortion of the Colonel's face. It had set, according to their account, into the most dreadful expression of fear and horror which a human countenance is capable of assuming. More than one person fainted at the mere sight of him, so terrible was the effect.

"Learn then, Italia, that thou deem'st so near, / and thither dream's of lightly passing o'er, / long leagues divide, and many a pathless mere."

It was a mere formality.