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"For just a mere $50.00, you can buy this item" = It uses 'mere' to give the idea that it is "only", that it isn't very much, that you should be happy to spend it, that you should feel like this is cheap to buy. It is a common sales trick that companies will use in advertisement. "It will only cost you this much" to make the expensive price feel less expensive. "for a mere [price], you get all of this [item/services]." etc.
"He is a mere child." / "He is merely a child." = He is only a child, he is a small child, he is too young for this. He is not very impressive because he is only a child.
"At just the mere thought of making my friend angry, I became nervous. They were going to be so upset with me! I didn't want to tell them the bad news." = It makes me so worried, that even just thinking about it, even just the smallest thought about it, makes me feel nervous. So it actually happening would be even worse, if even just thinking about it makes me worried.
"I wasn't very impressed with his present. We'd become close friends, but all he gave me was a mere card with nothing written in it."
"Over the years, their feelings had changed from mere friendship to something that was far deeper. They had fallen in love."
And here are some more examples, it looks like. Especially if you scroll down the page, there are a lot of example sentences here: https://sentence.yourdictionary.com/mere
In general, you stick "mere" in front of the word you are describing. If the word needs an article in front of it, then the word "mere" goes between the article word and the word it is being used to describe. So "It was a child" = "It was a mere child." "The idea of it made me worried." = "The mere idea of it made me worried." But if no article is normally needed, then you write it the normal way. So "It was friendship and nothing more. We were only friends." = "It was mere friendship and nothing more. We were only friends."
Hopefully that helps make it easier to see how to fit it into a sentence.
@HDGD "For just a mere $50.00, you can buy this item" = It uses 'mere' to give the idea that it is "only", that it isn't very much, that you should be happy to spend it, that you should feel like this is cheap to buy. It is a common sales trick that companies will use in advertisement. "It will only cost you this much" to make the expensive price feel less expensive. "for a mere [price], you get all of this [item/services]." etc."He is a mere child." / "He is merely a child." = He is only a child, he is a small child, he is too young for this. He is not very impressive because he is only a child."At just the mere thought of making my friend angry, I became nervous. They were going to be so upset with me! I didn't want to tell them the bad news." = It makes me so worried, that even just thinking about it, even just the smallest thought about it, makes me feel nervous. So it actually happening would be even worse, if even just thinking about it makes me worried. "I wasn't very impressed with his present. We'd become close friends, but all he gave me was a mere card with nothing written in it." "Over the years, their feelings had changed from mere friendship to something that was far deeper. They had fallen in love."And here are some more examples, it looks like. Especially if you scroll down the page, there are a lot of example sentences here: https://sentence.yourdictionary.com/mereIn general, you stick "mere" in front of the word you are describing. If the word needs an article in front of it, then the word "mere" goes between the article word and the word it is being used to describe. So "It was a child" = "It was a mere child." "The idea of it made me worried." = "The mere idea of it made me worried." But if no article is normally needed, then you write it the normal way. So "It was friendship and nothing more. We were only friends." = "It was mere friendship and nothing more. We were only friends." Hopefully that helps make it easier to see how to fit it into a sentence.
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