Example sentences for: mercy

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

  • An example is the sequence Jean, Jen(n)y, Jane, Jan(et), John, and Joan (ultimately derived from a single Biblical Hebrew name meaning Jehovah's mercy).

  • Although Kevorkian claims to have presided over 120-plus mercy suicides, in this most recent case, he directly caused death.

  • In the center is Amida Nyorai, the Buddha who leads believers to Paradise; on the right is Senju (“Thousand-Armed”) Kannon, the goddess of mercy; on the left is Bato-Kannon, depicted with a horse’s head on its forehead, regarded as the protector of animals.

  • He visits their bodies in the morgue, pulling back the sheet: "I closed my eyes," Brock says, "and said a short prayer, one of mercy and forgiveness.

  • gone--that God, in His Mercy, had pulled their sick hearts out, bled them, drained them, kissed the dead weight from the bones, that I was looking at myself in rags that were my parents--when I think of them I think of my friend with no one there those hours, no one to witness, no one to take his pulse, no one to talk or listen, no one to cross his heart.


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