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Example sentences for "not simply"

  • A multitude of practical interests arising from the new social and political conditions demanded expression, not simply in books, but more especially in pamphlets, magazines, and newspapers.

  • The reader who utters these words aloud a few times will speedily recognize his own tongue, not simply in the words but also in the whole structure of the sentences.

  • For a full half century he was the voice of England, loved and honored as a man and a poet, not simply by a few discerning critics, but by a whole people that do not easily give their allegiance to any one man.

  • Alastor is therefore the poet's confession, not simply of failure, but of undying hope in some better thing that is to come.

  • To command is not simply to compel or to convince but a subtle mixture of both.

  • This is not simply a bit of self-adulation; it is distinctly the American tradition in the matter.

  • The Armed Services of the United States do not simply do lip service to such institutions as United Nations.

  • It is not simply this or that aspect in human existence, but the whole of man's nature which has become problematical in this dissolution.

  • Though the great man cannot be understood out of relation to his time, he is not simply a product of the social environment.

  • The work of thought is not simply transitional: without its continuance that which has been gained would be quickly lost.

  • On the other hand, they ask, not simply for a conceivable mode, but for the actual mode.

  • Both thinkers assume that the organization of a society is comparable, not simply to the organization of a living body in general, but to the organization of the human body in particular.

  • It leaves impressions, not simply of things seen, but of acts judged and made attractive or unattractive.

  • He is not simply an instrument for achieving a given fraction of a universal end, but has a sacred trust which, on its own account, he is empowered and commissioned to discharge.

  • But this end is not simply a point in the far distant future; it is a condition, or state of the Church in the district, into which it must be growing.

  • The survey, therefore, should be not simply a single act but a continual process.

  • But it is not simply food, but his own food, that he offers, the choicest morsel, that which it costs him something to forego.

  • The messages and addresses of President Wilson have interpreted that meaning not simply to America but to the world.

  • The young men who are entering the Christian ministry in these days are being trained, not simply to preach and to care for a parish, but to teach and to direct the educational work of a church.

  • We may confidently expect the churches of tomorrow to realize this more fully, not simply in the ideals they preach, but in the temper and quality of their own life.

  • We aim, not simply to win their assent to a given body of beliefs or to attach them to the church as a saving institution, but to help them to become men and women who can think and choose for themselves.

  • For instance, that twice two are four is not simply a perception, it is my perception.

  • If these meet in us, the result is not simply a weakening of the power of the one, and a remaining motive of the strength of m minus n.

  • I am in favor of a tariff, not simply to raise a revenue--that I regard as incidental.

  • There ought to be some way to prevent crime; not simply to punish it.

  • I do not simply mean to call up in the mind of my hearer a certain 'cluster' or two coincident clusters of ideas, but to convey knowledge of truths.

  • In respect to morality, is he not simply indifferent?

  • The effect of the revolutionary principles was to destroy the religious sentiment, not simply by disproving this or that historical statement, but by making the whole world prosaic and matter-of-fact.

  • You have got to learn that Christianity comes to us not simply as a luxury but as a force, and no man who values Christianity simply as a luxury which he possesses really gets the Christianity which he tries to value.

  • The imperial "I say unto you" implied the power, not simply of judicial interpretation, but of repealing old laws and enacting new ones.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "not simply" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    good counsel; not alone; not appear; not being; not care; not even; not exactly; not feel; not forget; not have; not like; not long; not one; not remember; not uncommon; not worthy; not your; note from; note the; nothing against; nothing better; nothing else but the; nothing for; nothing loth; nothing more; notice the