"mere" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- In Bohemia the month of December was occupied in mere skirmishes.
- April 23, 1568 Battle of Rheindalen (Often regarded as a mere skirmish)
- Microsoft had both money and patience, and the Xbox was the beginning of a war, not a mere skirmish.
- Soon the gutters would run red with blood on a scale that made the French Revolution seem like a mere skirmish.
- Every day seemed a mere skirmish in the long holy war.
- Perhaps sent out to scout for Trelandarian flankers, the lines of battle here being "fluid", more now mere skirmishes than battles.
- A mere skirmish in terms of the fight that lay ahead.
- Moorish accounts describe the battle as a mere skirmish.
- This was more than a mere skirmish along the border of the Neutral Zone.
- The Kennedy and Johnson wars against poverty turned into mere skirmishes.
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