Prolonged crying on the part of a child neither swaddled nor out of health, a child who lacks nothing, is merely the result of habit or obstinacy.
I told him how its blackness was merely the result of fine particles of iron separated from the vitriol and precipitated by an alkaline solution.
It is thought that the expression is merely the development of certain features designed by nature.
The further we seek our definitions of taste, the further we go astray; taste is merely the power of judging what is pleasing or displeasing to most people.
Cinna's republicanism is merely thecloak of another passion: he is a tool in the hands of Emilia, who, on her part, constantly sacrifices her pretended love to her passion of revenge.
Every tragical result of a sin is merely the vengeance of these moral forces, which the criminal had undervalued when he planned the deed.
But reason plainly shows that it is merely the gratitude of a kind heart for a trivial service rendered in an unpleasant situation, and I am too proud to do, in earnest, what I just said in jest--profit by the opportunity.
At present I am merely the representative of Countess Wildenau's discharged courier, whose office, with my usual devotion, I am trying to fill, and doing everything in my power to escape the fate of my predecessor.
For it purported to be merely the acceptance of an invitation to dinner at the town house of Madame de Villetaneuse in the Faubourg St. Germain.
The President is merely thebutler of the citizens.
The people are the grapes crushed into wine for their rulers' drinking; and the King is merely the wine-cup on the festal board.
Is it merely the knowledge of the sense of sentences which originates from the sentences?
If, on the other hand, what you wish to prove is merely the existence of an intelligent creative agent, you prove only what is proved already (not contested by any one).
For what the preceding Sûtra has laid down is merely thedenial of an absolute rule demanding that cause and effect should be of the same nature; it was not asserted that the effect is a thing altogether different and separate from the cause.
This shows that what is effected by the comprehension of the meaning of texts is merely thecessation of impediments in the way of Release.
Nor is it merely the disposal of the indemnity in kind which will compel each Allied Government to continue to intervene in the trade and industry of its citizens.
That the table shall be perfect ismerely the every-day duty of the butler.
It is supposed that the red corpuscle is merely the nucleus of a colorless corpuscle enlarged, flattened, colored and liberated by the bursting of the wall of its cell.
The menstrual flow continues from three to five days, and is merely the exudation of ordinary venous blood through the mucous lining of the cavity of the uterus.
The law of motivation is, like all causality, merely the form of the phenomenon.
He does not mean to, the woman does not mean him to; it is merely thenature of him.
A lady could travel gayly with a single change of raiment; after a day's dust and soil, merely the transformation of a blouse, and behold a toilet fit for any table d'hote.
I am not the first to perpetrate a spurious quotation; I am merely the first to confess it.
Was he merely thesecretary of the Apostle writing in a manner from his dictation, or does the passage mean that he translated the Aramaic narrative of Peter into 1 Dr.
The deduction which is drawn from the assumption of a "Personal" Deity is, as we have seen, merely the possibility of miracles.
It is important to remember that in almost every stage of the development of these complex customs and ideas not merely the "finished product" but also the ingredients out of which it was built up were being scattered abroad.
But the Aztec god Tlaloc is merely the Chac of the Maya people transferred to Mexico.
This awareness or consciousness is not detached intellectual perception, but is accompanied by, as it is by some held to be merely the consciousness of, certain specific bodily disturbances.
But such an inference made by the untrained mind is merely the result of habit.
Emotions are, in many cases, merely the inner or subjective awareness of one of these great driving forces, or a complex of them.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "merely the" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
