Example sentences for: mercy

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

  • To mercy fuck and sport fuck we now add the even less pleasant hate fuck, immortalized as the title of the first album of post-punk band Pussy Galore in 1987 but found in the '70s, and force-fuck, apparently coined because the word rape wasn't shocking enough.

  • Maggs is delightfully atmospheric and full of peel-away details, shit-rimmed cobblestones and stinking . The quaintly elaborate names--Percival Clarence Buckle, Mercy Larkin, Sophina Smith--are a lively match for Dickens' Uriah Heeps and Augustus Snodgrasses.

  • All papers emphasize that the dignified Senate shudders at the prospect of a prolonged, sexually explicit trial, and the NYT best articulates the Democrats' scandal fatigue strategy: After 48 hours of solid, uninterrupted Monica, Republicans may well cry for mercy.

  • In the meantime, Albright had promoted the United Nations' disastrous "Safe Havens" policy, which placed masses of unarmed Bosnian civilians under the "protection" of minuscule numbers of U.N. (but no U.S.) troops--that is, left them at the mercy of Serb paramilitaries, who systematically set about driving them from their homes and killing them.

  • Analysts pondered why the pope's request worked this time, whereas similar pontifical pleas for mercy have failed in the past.


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