mere talk

Example Sentences

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The fact there was even the mere talk of disappointment at missing out on the Champions League illustrates what a superb season Nottingham Forest have had under Nuno Espirito Santo.

From BBC • May 26, 2025

“The Ryan campaign team in Wisconsin has shrugged off the threats, treating them as mere talk in the absence of a viable candidate to mount a challenge in the district.”

From Slate • Aug. 9, 2016

But with the group struggling with turnovers, rebounding and shooting against a Tulsa team that sat four games below .500, it all seemed mere talk.

From Washington Post • Dec. 30, 2013

Tonight, all of that amounts to mere talk and we start to see where the action leads.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 1, 2011

All that we have said about the Bourbons, and about France, and about myself, is mere talk, and talk won't overturn a throne.

From Memoirs of the Private Life, Return, and Reign of Napoleon in 1815, Vol. I by Fleury de Chaboulon, Pierre Alexandre Édouard, baron