Examples of 'were not mere' in a sentence
Meaning of "were not mere"
were not mere: Implies that something or someone was not simply what they appeared to be and had more significance, importance, or complexity than initially perceived
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were not mere
He feels that my afflictions were not mere products of my grief.
They were not mere contracts that could be easily broken.
Intangible events were not mere abstractions.
They were not mere psychics or fortune-tellers.
The pumpkins on the tree were not mere pumpkins.
These were not mere political rights.
We all see you as heroic and brave as if you were not mere mortals.
But these were not mere fads.
The real miracle of Skara Brae is that these houses were not mere shelters.
The warriors were not mere decorations.
To him the figures of Zarathustra and Dionysus were not mere metaphors.
If it were not mere trouble.
Scholars, men of science, in many cases clerics, these men were not mere translators.
The churches were not mere shelters.
These were not mere excesses of the State, but essential components of its political system.
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The images Adelmo drew were not mere foolishness.
Those were not mere words or idioms to him, but how he lived his life.
The writers of Scripture were not mere writing machines.
They were not mere exhibitions of power, but also of holiness, wisdom and love.
Five times he had been beaten with 39 stripes, and these were not mere spankings.
These were not mere gestures.
And knowing Paul 's frankness, we can be sure that they were not mere formality.
These were not mere adaptations.
And if these were not mere suppositions?
Adam and Eve were not mere tenants of the Garden of Eden.
The camps were not mere " concentration camps.
Unhappily, my fears were not mere phantoms of my youthful imagination.
Unappily, my fears were not mere phantoms of my youthful imagination.
The shows were not mere concerts, they were events!
And these were not mere “ common ” men.
Women, lastly, were not mere abstractions, but flesh-and-blood human beings.
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