Perhaps instead of merely killing you, I can find some use for you.

In other, more chilling cases, they were ordered to merely kill a specified number of Jews in a given town or area.

It wasn't enough for Brakmaktin to merely kill him.

He'd merely killed them, while Sterol had turned them into dust and ashes.

Though not a vegetarian, he held "a deep contempt for people who go out to kill merely to amuse themselves."

It would accomplish far more than merely killing you, Richard.

But still, it wasn't enough to merely kill the other Kirk.

But it would be wrong to take that to mean that we are merely killing time on a trivial matter.

I, I would merely kill you, were it so.

If I'd merely killed him in self-defense, my troubles would have been over instead of suddenly being multiplied.