A mere eight lines in which Alsemero explains that it is impossible to comfort people after they have lost a person close to them.

We see them delineated in front of our eyes as if they were mere lines on a map made out of paper.

Women are not full figures but mere lines.

So far as mere line and feature went, she was the classic Indian type.

So Marina's message was a mere seven lines of.

Even though the poem is a mere nineteen lines there are many differing interpretations.

Haiku, at a mere three lines, might feel a bit like cheating.

The slit was tiny and showed as a mere darker line between the lips.

There was a fire in the fireplace too, the merest line of orange coals.

But the Gouge's far southern wall was a mere line of darkness on the horizon.