How to Use not merely in a Sentence

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• Soon, Old Glory will have to be born in the land of the free and not merely flying over it.
  — Patrick Whittle, Fortune, 29 July 2024
• 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
• For on Juneteenth, we are reminded that freedom is not merely a gift, but a task — one that falls to us, the living, to complete.
  — Tribune News Service, Hartford Courant, 17 June 2024
• 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
• In the popular imagination, she is not merely supposed to win; she is supposed to win by body lengths.
  — Louisa Thomas, The New Yorker, 28 July 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
• American workers are not merely victims of that life but the literal creators of it.
  — Emily Harnett, Harper's Magazine, 26 Apr. 2024
• 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
• But the boards affected by the bill are often not merely innocuous groups that throw out ideas for policymakers to adopt.
  — Mercury News & East Bay Times Editorial, The Mercury News, 4 June 2024
• All eyes are on Paris, not merely for its iconic Eiffel Tower, but for the nostalgia of summer sports history.
  — Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 26 July 2024
• 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
• His Chigurh is not merely a villain, but a force of nature – with all the actual horror that entails – marked by an unsettling calmness in the face of profound terror.
  — Indiewire Staff, IndieWire, 13 Aug. 2024
• And Harris and Walz cannot merely laugh off people’s economic woes, international crises or Project 2025.
  — Richard Cherwitz, Hartford Courant, 13 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 2 Oct 2024