"mere" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- The celery was missing and the truffles were mere pinpricks.
- The irises of her eyes are huge, the pupils mere pinpricks; has she been taking laudanum again?
- Suddenly the punctures in his stomach felt like mere pinpricks.
- Yet nausea and bone-weariness were mere pinpricks compared to the emotional upheaval she was going through.
- Emerging from the foliage, they stared at the aircraft, which was already a mere pinprick against the pale blue sky.
- A mere pinprick, yet it was some kind of hope, although not a lot.
- The blood sugar level checks were mere pinpricks, a nuisance, but again, routine.
- It shrank to a mere pinprick, then vanished altogether.
- The nearer ones glowed with their strange, alien light, while those farthest away were mere pinpricks, almost invisible to the eye.
- The sun was a mere pinprick of light on the distant horizon, too cold and far away to do any good.
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