MERCY in a Sentence
Learn MERCY from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
161 example sentences for MERCY, such as:
1. Fire and water have no mercy.
2. Death came as a merciful release.
3. The merciful king saved him from death.
4. The men were at the mercy of the cattle.
5. I think her death was a merciful release.
2. Death came as a merciful release.
3. The merciful king saved him from death.
4. The men were at the mercy of the cattle.
5. I think her death was a merciful release.
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Meanings and Examples of MERCY
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mercy
n. a disposition to be kind and forgiving
n. the feeling that motivates compassion
Classic Sentence: (144 in 10 pages)
1 But as long as she was where the wounded could see her, she was gentle, sympathetic and cheerful, and the men in the hospitals called her an angel of mercy.
2 Sugar always caught more flies than vinegar, as Mammy often said, and she was going to catch and subdue this fly, so he could never again have her at his mercy.
3 "I'm tempting you with fine gifts until your girlish ideals are quite worn away and you are at my mercy," he said.
4 These convicts were so far away from everything, so completely at the mercy of Johnnie Gallegher, and if he chose to whip them or otherwise mistreat them, she would probably never know about it.
5 For one night, he had had her at his mercy but now she knew the weakness of his armor.
6 Selden met this with an unusual seriousness: she had never seen him so little master of the situation, so plainly at the mercy of any obstructions she might put in his way.
7 But, mercy, I didn't mean to go on like this about myself, with you sitting there looking so fagged out.
8 No mercy, no power but its own controls it.
9 No, no, it wasn't; I said the corpusants have mercy on us all; and I hope they will, still.
10 "The corpusants have mercy on us all," cried Stubb, again.
11 The negroes may as well understand that there is no mercy for the negro rapist and little patience with his defenders.
12 The old fiddle squeaks and shrieks in protest, but Tamoszius has no mercy.
13 There would be no one to hear them if they cried out; there would be no help, no mercy.
14 The men were at the mercy of the cattle.
15 They might have mercy on him there, or he might meet a friend.
Example Sentence: (17 in 2 pages)
1 Fire and water have no mercy.
2 The poor stationer was at the mercy of those from whom he borrowed money.
3 Who shows mercy to an enemy denies it to himself.
4 The troops are on a mercy mission in the war zone.
5 They were on a mercy mission to take food to the refugees when they were attacked.
6 She vanished nine months ago while on a mercy mission to West Africa.
7 We saw two cars crashed on street, it was a mercy that no one was hurt.
8 The criminal tried to adjure to the court for mercy.
9 Beneath a lustrous 33-metre bronze statue of Guanyin, the Bodhisattva of mercy, a young monk tallies the cash donated by visiting faithful.
10 Eventually the session came to a merciful end.
11 I think my uncle's death was a merciful release for my poor aunt.
12 Death came as a merciful release.
13 I think her death was a merciful release.
14 The merciful king saved him from death.
15 The merciful king saved the young officers from death.