"mere" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- The six bison that the Methodist missionaries shot during their ill-fated hunting excursion were mere remnants of southern Alberta's once vast buffalo population.
- The Y chromosome, "a mere remnant of its once mighty structure," is worried about size.
- It could not lean on the Assembly, a mere shrunken remnant, whose days were numbered.
- All that could be hoped for was the persistence of a mere remnant of civilized humanity, which should be able to lie dormant until a more favourable epoch.
- Little by little this scanty human race degenerated into a mere remnant of Arctic savages.
- They, too, are mere remnants.
- Such loans soon shrank to a pittance as double-digit inflation raged, while leaving deposit owners with mere remnants of their savings.
- It was, however, a mere remnant of the allied army which returned, and the Austrians were soon masters of north Italy, including the Republic of Genoa (September).
- The Communist Party, the only meaningful opposition, holds only 51 seats, making it a mere remnant of the force it was even in the early post-Soviet period.
- A mere remnant of their former glory the cedar forests are still impressive covering large areas of the Middle Atlas.
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