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

It’s funny how, being so expert at playing grand narcissists, you retreat from the merest hint of self-promotion.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 6, 2024

But Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer is going out of his way to avoid even the merest whiff of complacency.

From BBC • Feb. 16, 2024

The soldier passed by with only the merest glance.

From "The Whipping Boy" by Sid Fleischman