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Example sentences for "mere nothing"

  • Him tink you speakee and understandee ebelyting, Excellencies,' he said, smiling as if the fact amused him, and as if the affair in hand was a mere nothing.

  • A mere nothing,' said our hero, somewhat feebly, smiling all the same.

  • Then he lifted him from his feet as if he weighed a mere nothing, and using all his strength threw him across the alley-way.

  • With the historian Gomara it is always thus: Cortes did this, Cortes did that, Cortes was there, Cortes left there; just as if all this had been a mere nothing.

  • They would not be able to live upon what they sold in the shop--that was a mere nothing.

  • Our travelling expenses would amount to a mere nothing.

  • No, comrades," a prisoner strikes in, "the cuppings are a mere nothing.

  • This has happened to me once before, but it was less painful then; it was a mere nothing.

  • What remained to be done was a mere nothing.

  • There was some trifling confusion in obtaining another light; the interval was a mere nothing; but when the light appeared, Ralph Nickleby was gone.

  • Beauty goes for a mere nothing in matrimony, when once one's used to it.

  • No, it was a mere nothing; only she had hit him right on the middle of the nose.

  • Melie and I had a morsel also, just a bite, a mere nothing, for our heart was not in it.

  • Comparatively few--a mere nothing--of Jinks's employees ever come in personal contact with his customers.

  • From Naples to Messina, it is a mere nothing, and the climate is still lovelier, and the supplemental fare much less per mile than even that from Rome to Naples.

  • If only you would continue on to Naples," suggested the ticket-seller, "you would find the supplemental fare so slight as to be a mere nothing to your purse.

  • Yet the booster is as ingeniously geared from its cylinders to its driving power as the engine of a high-grade automobile and weighs but 3500 pounds all told--a mere nothing in comparison with the energy that it gives off.

  • It was, as she had supposed, a mere nothing.

  • It is a mere nothing," said he, "and can be looked after later on.

  • You have lost your father," seemed to him a mere nothing to say; fathers die before their children.

  • Do you call six thousand francs a mere nothing?

  • A mere nothing, a stray lock, a fold of a garment that is not in its customary place, a tense muscle, makes them unpleasing or suspicious, pretentious or hard.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    both eyes; both parent; good record; lump sugar; mere chance; mere child; mere coincidence; mere collection; mere force; mere form; mere handful; mere illusion; mere matter; mere nature; mere negation; mere physical; mere question; merely formal; merely the; more proper; other girls; personal friend; recommend them; sing cuccu; this second; wife and