Merely in example sentence

But most of all, I wished to tell him what Herman Melville wrote, that "truly to enjoy bodily warmth, some small part of you must be cold, for there is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast."

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"He merely makes you think that he does."

This caste system was so arcane that it was actually against the law for a black person and a white person to merely play checkers together in Birmingham.

Merely by making the single decision to leave, her parents assured that their daughter would get access to books.

I merely, most respectfully, return Him the ticket."

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