"mere" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- It seems hard to link this billion-dollar business to these bare tables, lined with small electronic scales and little piles of shiny stones sprinkled like mere pebbles on pieces of paper.
- Hamed looks at Kelley as a mere pebble on his road to glory in America.
- The stones beneath their feet were smaller, varying in size from a hen's egg to a mere pebble, and at fairly regular intervals there were funnel-shaped craters, each about twenty feet deep.
- Fifty tons of rock could be held suspended above my head by a mere pebble.
- The towering boulders at the place he had started his climb now looked like mere pebbles.
- It turns out the apparent rocks in Mr. Van Sant's head are mere pebbles.
- The boulders are held within the clay in an irregular manner, and they vary in size from mere pebbles up to masses many tons in weight.
- His brightest diamonds were the merest pebbles, and felt to be so by himself, in comparison with the inestimable gems which lay hidden beyond his reach.
- Thus it is that historians differ at the very outset, and mere pebbles make the stream of truth diverge into different channels even at the fountain head.
- The lower half of the face was gone by then, and the staring eyes above seemed to have turned into mere glassy pebbles.
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