How to Use have mercy in a Sentence

have mercy

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• And Lord have mercy on my soul if one person is both of these things.
  — Sherry Kuehl, Kansas City Star, 3 Apr. 2024
• Sanaa Lathan has the last word, Lord have mercy.
  — Literary Hub, 3 Apr. 2026
• May God have mercy on the Pope, a man of peace, and forgive him.
  — Ross Rosenfeld, MSNBC Newsweek, 23 Apr. 2025
• May God have mercy on your soul and watch over your precious family.
  — Tracy Wright, FOXNews.com, 14 Sep. 2025
• Streett pleaded with jurors in her closing statements to have mercy on her client and spare her life.
  — Tracy Neal, arkansasonline.com, 14 Feb. 2024
• May God have mercy on the soul of the deceased, and grant patience to his family and loved ones.
  — Niraj Warikoo, Detroit Free Press, 12 Feb. 2022
• May Allah grant them victory and have mercy on their martyrs.
  — Jon Root Outkick, FOXNews.com, 4 July 2026
• Jackson’s mother, Nancy Rhodes, urged the judge to have mercy on her son.
  — oregonlive, 25 July 2022
• Lard have mercy, a new Southern restaurant is opening in Louisville.
  — Dahlia Ghabour, The Courier-Journal, 8 Feb. 2022
• If Bellinger is in MVP form again this year, have mercy on opposing bullpens.
  — Daniel Kohn, SPIN, 6 Apr. 2022
• So without further ado, meet the cast of Big Brother 23, and may God have mercy on their souls.
  — Dalton Ross, EW.com, 1 July 2021
• May God have mercy on Arkansas and send someone with the necessary skills to be governor of this state.
  — Arkansas Online, 25 Apr. 2021
• Rocha’s public defender, Stephen Reynolds, urged the jury to have mercy on him because of the trauma throughout his life and his impairments.
  — Pj Green, Kansas City Star, 7 Oct. 2025
• Earlier this month, The Washington Post’s John Woodrow Cox reported on a retiree who used a publicly available email address to encourage an attorney at the Department of Homeland Security to have mercy on an asylum seeker.
  — David A. Graham, The Atlantic, 17 Feb. 2026