"I believe he has been shot at, several times but the bullets merely grazed him."
I couldn't tell how bad the wound was, nor yet whether the bullet had gone into him or merely grazed his side.
Not being deft, like Alvin, he didn't know how to merely graze the man, glance at him.
Trees flew off, after being torn from their roots, and animals fell dead when the genie's breath would merely graze them.
The Roon had been merely grazed by his gun-blast.
At the third swing, the knight merely grazes Gawain's neck with a superficial wound.
Major Wells' Colt was big enough to knock any man down, even if a slug merely grazed him.
Barra's aim had been thrown off by her movement, and the bullet had merely grazed the pin.
Her cumbersome felt-lined boot merely grazed his shoulder.
If the strugglers merely grazed it, the smooth-hinged barrier would clamp upon Murk and his companions.