I am become fat through merely hearing about so much good eating.

Spread my mind to the world, trying to listen rather than merely hear.

A lie, he knew, though he had not touched the phone, merely heard the voice through the answering machine.

The answer: "They didn't want to merely hear the news, they wanted to see it happening.

A first-person narrator who merely hears about the major events of the story is no good to you at all.

Henchard merely heard his story, without taking it deeply in.

The rest end up around a corner or on the opposite side of a wall from him, and merely hear his voice.

"I merely heard that their widows were running a bed-and-breakfast here."

He merely hears what members say while on the way out.

They'd been paralleling the water for most of the day, but this was the first time Sharina had seen rather than merely heard it.