Merely in a sentence as an adverb

I don't know if that's true, I merely remember the story.

Though if applied merely mechanically, it might be used for such a purpose, it ought not be used that way.

There is nothing to admire, and patent trolls are merely smug abusers of our society.

That the companies that have currently been created are boring to you is merely a side effect.

I'm only very slightly joking, merely to avoid calling out the actual companies and services.

The Court will not hear cases merely because they might have been wrongly decided unless some such extraordinary factor exists.

You might also consider merely greying out comments that have not yet been endorsed, as currently happens to down-voted comments.

Coal is guaranteed to have costly negative health and environmental impacts on surrounding areas, while nuclear merely has the risk.

It's always relatively subtle; they strive to only do what they can get away with...but it's always pushing the line, and is never based on trying to do what's right, merely avoiding backlash.

A handful of search engines?The point at which google is doing us a favor by not being evil, instead of merely abiding by the law, is the point at which our expectations should be updated.

Can it be said that such a large segment of humanity is doing nothing ennobling but is merely spending life dying a slow death while living worthless lives because work is done of necessity?

Is Vine really a radical new way to communicate, or is it merely the nadir of audiovisual culture, fragmenting the world into six-second shards of nothingness?

According to the article:"...The customer considers that if I don't want to record the video, it's because I have something to hide and want to lie about the real time spent on his project".Dealing with a client that tells you from the outset that they believe you are going to lie to them isn't merely an annoyance.

Merely definitions

adverb

and nothing more; "I was merely asking"; "it is simply a matter of time"; "just a scratch"; "he was only a child"; "hopes that last but a moment"

See also: simply just only