Examples of merciful in a Sentence

He became less merciful to his enemies. He died a quick and merciful death.

Recent Examples on the Web The running time is only 94 minutes long, thus proving there may, in fact, be a merciful higher power out there. — Jason Bailey, Rolling Stone, 13 May 2022 On April 6, 1815, after the Anglo-American war had ended but before the U.S. prisoners were officially freed, this merciful injunction acquired a bitter irony. — Stephen Brumwell, WSJ, 27 Apr. 2022 The subsequent loss—completing a sweep that even the worst Nets pessimist wouldn’t have predicted—felt almost merciful. — Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 26 Apr. 2022 And is dementia, as a form of amnesia, actually merciful, at least for someone with Ptolemy’s memories—of lynchings, fires, an unfaithful wife ( Cynthia Kaye McWilliams ), friends long gone and justice denied? — John Anderson, WSJ, 10 Mar. 2022 Their mastery since mid-February of reaching new nadirs has undermined the progress shown in the first half of the season and rendered the April 29 finale a beacon of merciful closure. — Helene St. James, Detroit Free Press, 29 Mar. 2022 His merciful understanding of literary characters revealed itself in his treatment of his friends and students. — George Messenger, National Review, 20 Mar. 2022 Disney’s The Book of Boba Fett has reimagined a character that fans always viewed as a soulless bounty hunter, happy to work for the worst people in the galaxy, into a merciful crime lord with a heart of gold. — Dani Di Placido, Forbes, 20 Jan. 2022 The day after another fiasco of a Giants season reached its merciful conclusion, with a 22-7 home loss to Washington that dropped their record to 4-13, the team embarked on another overhaul. — New York Times, 10 Jan. 2022 See More

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