"merely" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- At the time, the Packers thought Switzer was merely rubbing their faces in yet another humiliating loss to the Cowboys, their seventh straight at Texas Stadium.
- If you are merely rubbing your vanity to relieve a soreness, please defer it.
- Data raised his pet, who merely rubbed herself against Picard's leg.
- Lestat merely rubbed his hands.
- A fine victory for Northampton, but in a way it merely rubbed salt into their self-inflicted wounds.
- (Actually, it turns out the Inuit were not merely rubbing noses, they were smelling each other's cheeks).
- Donna was merely rubbing my shoulders.
- The man put out a hand and Kevin flinched, but the man merely rubbed him gently on the shoulder.
- The fact the hosts did not even have to call on their usual first-choice goalkicker, Ian Humphreys, who was nursing a sore hamstring, merely rubbed salt in East Midlands' wounds.
- The air of the place was a sublime intoxication, and yet its enchantment merely rubbed into our souls the shame of our wretched physical condition.
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