I have taken a violent dislike to more than one clever American man merely because he trailed his voice through his nose.
It was no longer the fashion to take one's money to New York, merely because of the higher cost of living that made a millionaire "feel his oats," and of the allure of the older and more difficult society to his women.
She would wish not to love him, merely because he loved her, but on account of his virtues; and the sister might have been able to struggle for herself, instead of eating the bitter bread of dependence.
How long may an observation, fortunately made, continue to be useless to mankind, merely because it has not been reasoned upon!
The caricatura of some of the passions, perhaps, will not shock children who are not used to their natural appearance; they will pass over the stories of love and jealousy, merely because they do not understand them.
It is not a privilege which every member of a Church possesses, merely because he is a Churchman.
Do not think you are getting no good from the Bible, merely because you do not see that good day by day.
But Stephen certainly did not "communicate with heretics," merely because he did not dare to impugn the baptism of Christ, which he knew remained perfect in the midst of their perversity.
The best government of which we know anything is that of the universe; and it is so, merely because it proceeds from a single will, that will being without blemish.
I thought of my own little house in Buckinghamshire, and how the edge of the country town where it stands is called Aylesbury End, merely because it is the corner nearest to Aylesbury.
Nor will I submit to whatever fate cold, unfeeling people may doom me, merely because I am a woman and alone.
Do you know, I consider it positively discourteous of you to pay no attention to my wisest words, merely because, after such a long acquaintance, your eyes still find something about me to 'study?
More than once she had taken back a picture, with which the person who had ordered it expressed himself as quite content, merely because it did not satisfy herself.
For that reason he would not need to join in their raving, merely because he found himself among people who were crazy and enraptured.
Nor should we admit the existence of several intelligences, merely because we distinguish a thinker from a consciousness of the thinker.
Nor should the world be considered badly made, merely because we suffer so much therein.
Then Intelligence feels that it is more beautiful and more brilliant, merely because it has approached the First.
Moreover, it is a characteristic of an imperfect and fallible being to contemplate some external thing, merely because it is beautiful.
At the end he had really become a small landlord, merely because it was not the lord that owned him, but the land.
The image, merely because it was called an idol, became not only an ensign but a weapon.
Penniless girls cannot afford to refuse such an offer as Mr. Lyne's, merely because they do not love in the desperate way of which, you say, Flora talks.
Surely, mamma, the liking may be a stronger one than can be checked so easily, merely because you do not think him rich enough; that is hardly a sufficient reason to induce us to give up one whom we love.
In the ordinary run of his business smart young men came to Mr. Miller with notions and devices for this and that; he bought them, paid for them at the current rates, merely because he had to have them; but they were not what he really wanted.
No; the simple reason for it all is merely because I'm a younger son.
Merely because I desire some information--nothing more.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "merely because" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
