To her, they were all becoming mere objects, without any value or purpose other than as fuel.

I did not wish to be a mere sexual object!

He seems to be in love with Koharu, yet sees her as a mere object to obtain.

With time, they lose the love and become mere objects.

"Do you think you are more than a mere object," he asked, "to be done with as I please?"

When people did not speak, they were mere objects, useful perhaps, but of no value beyond their use.

Other people were mere objects of indifference to him.

"How should a mere object of the King's occasional pleasure venture to have an opinion on such matters?"

Royalty had been reduced in a moment to a mere object.

But he got something far more treacherous than mere objects.