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
"Lapwood's music was evocative, deploying the organ's entire range, from the merest whisper to stadium-rock pomp at full volume," he wrote.
From BBC ● Sep. 28, 2023
—The window was the merest slit in the black rock, not big enough for a man to enter....A skeletal figure was just visible through it, curled beneath a blanket....Dead, or sleeping...?
From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling
