merest

Example Sentences

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Before Lamarck, naturalists saw organisms as passive, depending on supernatural intervention for their merest actions as well as their very existence.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 20, 2026

She reset to hold, then wrestled back the break, allowing herself the merest of smiles.

From Barron's • Jan. 31, 2026

Inside, you can be sure every effort will be made to snuff out the merest hint of discontent.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 19, 2024

Before Saturday, the atmospheric spigots of April had given us the merest trickle of moisture.

From Washington Post • Apr. 15, 2023

I stopped and my senses poised themselves on the brink of insensibility, ready to swoop away at the merest nod from me.

From "Nectar in a Sieve" by Kamala Markandaya