How to Use not merely in a Sentence

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• Erik Adolph, the UberEats driver at the heart of this case, is not merely a plaintiff.
  — David Astoria, Fortune, 28 Aug. 2023
• Do not merely use the edge of each tile to estimate each row of tile.
  — Grace Tucker, The Enquirer, 21 Mar. 2024
• The new whiskies are robust and complex in their flavor, not merely spicy like many ryes.
  — Florence Fabricant, New York Times, 5 Feb. 2024
• The beautiful trick that Banks pulls off as the adult MJ is to embody, not merely mimic.
  — Lisa Kennedy, The Denver Post, 12 Apr. 2024
• The 1963 March on Washington did not merely come together on its own via a whim, a wish, and good will.
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 15 Nov. 2023
• The indictment did not merely accuse Trump of holding on to all these files.
  — Alan Feuer and Maggie Haberman, BostonGlobe.com, 9 June 2023
• And the lack of tooth marks on the bones of the dinosaur suggests the mammal was actively hunting—not merely scavenging—its meal.
  — Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine, 19 July 2023
• Wilson was not merely a man of his time who shared its common prejudices.
  — Dan McLaughlin, National Review, 6 Feb. 2024
• However, this rotation of sweet or salty snacks winding their way through the office may not merely be a force of habit.
  — Eleanor Pringle, Fortune Well, 26 Oct. 2023
• It wasn’t manufactured or rehearsed; just the siblings in a dark room, not merely singing but feeling the bitter heartbreak of the song.
  — Cat Cardenas, Vogue, 26 Oct. 2023
• Well, Singh’s comments went over like a patron talking on a cellphone here, not merely wrong, but an affront to what makes the Masters the Masters.
  — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 16 Apr. 2024
• But a brand’s legacy is not merely built on financial success.
  — Nerisha Penrose, ELLE, 18 Apr. 2023
• And some experts say NYCB is not merely an isolated hiccup for a single lender that got out over its skis.
  — Allison Morrow, CNN, 8 Mar. 2024
• Here was an environment that was not merely defined by absence, but thrived on it.
  — Hazlitt, 2 Aug. 2023
• Meeting the moment means ushering in systemic change, experts said — not merely putting pink on brochures.
  — Brittany Shammas, Washington Post, 16 Jan. 2024
• The snippet is not merely a hook, or a catchy verse, but a short burst of music that has become a distinct form of communication — part of the unique language of short-form video feeds.
  — Jeff Ihaza, Rolling Stone, 28 June 2023
• The court’s ruling in Brown v. Board of Education was not merely a moral statement but a political one.
  — Nikole Hannah-Jones, New York Times, 13 Mar. 2024
• Mota finds uncharted ground in not merely rethinking the future but rewriting the past.
  — Emily Hart, New York Times, 10 June 2023
• The deeper trouble with the PA is not merely a matter of execution or personnel.
  — Raja Khalidi, Foreign Affairs, 19 Mar. 2024
• Yet Yoshida has not merely begun to learn about Williams but, in at least one remarkable aspect, started evoking him.
  — Alex Speier, BostonGlobe.com, 15 July 2023
• In many instances, those are players with a chance not merely to offer depth to keep the Sox from derailments with injuries (at least to position players) but with a chance to raise the ceiling of what the team can be.
  — Alex Speier, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Sep. 2023
• Showing itself as not merely one-dimensional Friday, El Camino (3-1) also scored on long drives when the game still may have been in question.
  — Tim Meehan, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Sep. 2023
• Smith’s demonstration was not merely a hacker party trick.
  — Andy Greenberg, WIRED, 24 Oct. 2023
• But throughout the pandemic this science has been used not merely to inform the public but also to legislate policy from the top down.
  — Jason Blakely, Harper's Magazine, 10 July 2023
• In the grand tapestry of our societal evolution, AI is not merely a chapter but a pivotal turning point.
  — Jane Thier, Fortune, 3 Oct. 2023
• This tragedy is not merely an echo of the past but a reflection of the harsh reality of the active and growing threat against transgender and nonbinary youth today.
  — Danielle Marie Holland, Parents, 28 Feb. 2024
• But that sentiment belies the views of many in Israel who seek a more definitive outcome — not merely the full defeat of Hamas, but the flattening of Gaza and the entire context where Hamas emerged.
  — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 2 Nov. 2023
• And spoiler alert: There’s another wedding, although this one is not merely Greek but Greek/Syrian.
  — Frank Scheck, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 Sep. 2023
• What Buffett and all of his fans secretly know is that such escapist reveries are not merely an optional lark but a necessary tool for survival.
  — Drew M. Dalton, Fortune, 10 Sep. 2023
• Legends and lurid adventure tales of the late 19th and 20th centuries are full of stories of giant bloodthirsty plant life, lying in wait not merely to trap an insect, but to ensnare and snack upon much larger prey — like us.
  — Stephen C. George, Discover Magazine, 5 Sep. 2023

Last Updated: 27 Jun 2024