Example sentences for: merest

How can you use “merest” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The result is a majestic book, filled with fascinating facts, memorable profiles of scientists, and a profound grasp of the fact that we human beings are nothing but the merest specks.

  • It may be hard to believe, but in the 1960s some linguists advocated a stochastic approach to grammatical analysis--that is, one in which each word was analyzed on its own, without reference to what preceded or followed--an approach that even the merest intelligence ought to have rejected.

  • Those who hail 2Pac as a poet should realize that, on this album, the lyrics are the merest afterthought; by this stage, he was more gangsta than rapper.

  • In the merest quibble, the word limbeck ( Macbeth , I, 7) is missing from Professor Spevack's compendium, although it appears to be standard usage in most editions of Macbeth.

  • It is unfair to include being published as a criterion of being a writer--at least a good writer: as we all know, some of the best writers seem to have been published only by the merest chance; we also know that some of the worst writers are published continually and have miniseries and films made from the trash they grind out.


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