In the face of such evidence as this, cross-examination was a mere form.

Had they any customers, or was it a mere form?

At best such minds would consider my species a mere larval form.

The offer seemed more than a mere form of courtesy.

His power and character extend beyond mere physical form.

It is the mere form of sensation because sensations must be felt in succession.

The letters are neither independent substances nor yet as mere forms.

Television and movies were a mere form of entertainment.

It is a mere form, a trick of manner.

It was no mere form for either of them.