A country which carried on foreign trade merely upon this account could scarce have occasion to freight a ship in a century.

But instead of pumping the weights up and down as he ran, the young man was merely carrying them.

I was, in a sense, merely carrying on a family tradition.

They merely carried on the business practices they had been used to.

We are merely carrying on in the long "If I come along, will you shut up?"

This line was all the more insidious in that it merely carried Paul's logic a little further.

It looked as though Sonny were merely carrying an overcoat with both hands.

Vietnam gained independence from China in 938 and merely carried on the tradition of using cash.

Many of those who ran merely carried the disease with them, infecting new communities.

We don't create the disease; we merely carry it.