Example sentences for: mercy

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

  • Mostly the city is flat, which is a mercy for the millions who bicycle to work in the world’s most unlikely rush hour, a chaos of buses and trucks and more bikes than you’ve seen in your whole life.

  • The carved portico is especially fine, with a statue of Our Lady of Mercy under a canopy.

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

  • 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.

  • In Ghirlandaio’s Madonna of Mercy (right aisle, 2nd bay), portrayed immediately to the right of Mary is the Florentine banker-navigator-cartographer Amerigo Vespucci, who gave his name to the continent of America (and whose family was a sponsor of this church).


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