Example sentences for: merciful

How can you use “merciful” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • At its worst, Limbo is about when bad things happen to good people, and its ending is cruelly abrupt (although maybe merciful if it means what I think it does).

  • For those who are unfamiliar with computers and the need for a word-processing package, I should explain (with what I hope is merciful brevity) that when you buy what is fondly called a “personal” computer, you get three pieces of equipment (though they may be combined in some models or makes): a rectangular box with some slots in the front and sockets in the back, which is the computer; a monitor, which is a small TV set without the usual buttons; and a keyboard, which looks like an ordinary typewriter keyboard but, in many models sold today, has a number of additional keys alongside those for the familiar alphanumeric characters.

  • There's also a scene in which an alien gets slowly sucked out of a hole into space, a process that makes a meat grinder look merciful.

  • She replies, "But the God I don't believe in is a good God, a just God, a merciful God."

  • Because there's no payoff in being merciful to House Republicans.


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