Example sentences for: mercy

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

  • The homecoming of Jordan's King Hussein was marked in Amman's mass circulation daily Al Ra'i Friday by an editorial asking that God might show him mercy "equal to the size of our prayers and love for our beloved king," but the Jordanian press was unable to report on the possible repercussions of his likely death because of government-imposed censorship.

  • The NYT and LAT off-leads and inside stories elsewhere report that the governor of Missouri, Mel Carnahan, a proponent of capital punishment, commuted the death sentence of a convicted murder to life in prison without parole after the pope, during his recent visit to St. Louis appealed directly to him to "show mercy" in the case.

  • Kevorkian, acting as his own attorney, is arguing that it was a mercy killing.

  • Its most arresting site is Little Western Heaven (Xiao Xi Tian), which consists of a square pagoda and four towers, erected as a shrine to the Goddess of Mercy (Guanyin) in 1770.

  • 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.


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