MERCIFUL in a Sentence

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161 example sentences for MERCIFUL, such as:

1. Fire and water have no mercy.
2. Death came as a merciful release.
3. The merciful king saved him from death.
4. I think her death was a merciful release.
5. Eventually the session came to a merciful end.

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 Meanings and Examples of MERCIFUL
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
merciful
 a.  showing or giving mercy
 a.  (used conventionally of royalty and high nobility) gracious
Classic Sentence: (144 in 10 pages)
1  "Mr. Lincoln, the merciful and just, who cries large tears over Mrs. Bixby's five boys, hasn't any tears to shed about the thousands of Yankees dying at Andersonville," said Rhett, his mouth twisting.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVI
2  Gradually, Scarlett drew courage from the brave faces of her friends and from the merciful adjustment which nature makes when what cannot be cured must be endured.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIX
3  She tried to think of all the things Mammy and Ellen had done for her when Wade was born but the merciful blurring of the childbirth pains obscured almost everything in mist.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXI
4  It was as if Tony's appearance that wild rainy night had stripped merciful blinders from her eyes and forced her to see the true uncertainty of her life.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVII
5  It sometimes seems we are deserted by earth and Heaven yet we must still think, speak and work, and trust in the power of a merciful God for final deliverance.
Southern Horrors By Ida B. Wells-Barnett
Context  Highlight   In I
6  His death was regarded by the slaves as the result of a merciful providence.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick Douglass
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
7  God, who had long been merciful, would then be just.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3
8  God is still the merciful Lord who wishes not the eternal death of the sinner but rather that he be converted and live.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3
9  But God was merciful to poor sinners who were truly sorry.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3
10  But God is merciful and just, and knows your pain and your devotion to that dear Madam Mina.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
11  "You will do well to hearken unto Him who is merciful," he said.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER IV
12  There is one thing I constantly pray God to grant, mon cousin," she replied, "and it is that He would be merciful to him and would allow his noble soul peacefully to leave this.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XXI
13  "God is merciful, doctors are never needed," she said.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER VIII
14  "We French are merciful after victory, but we do not pardon traitors," he added, with a look of gloomy dignity and a fine energetic gesture.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 11: CHAPTER XXVIII
15  We were all disposed to wonder, but it seems to have been the merciful appointment of Providence that the heart which knew no guile should not suffer.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLVII
Example Sentence: (17 in 2 pages)
1  Eventually the session came to a merciful end.
2  I think my uncle's death was a merciful release for my poor aunt.
3  Death came as a merciful release.
4  I think her death was a merciful release.
5  The merciful king saved him from death.
6  The merciful king saved the young officers from death.
7  Fire and water have no mercy.
8  The poor stationer was at the mercy of those from whom he borrowed money.
9  Who shows mercy to an enemy denies it to himself.
10  The troops are on a mercy mission in the war zone.
11  They were on a mercy mission to take food to the refugees when they were attacked.
12  She vanished nine months ago while on a mercy mission to West Africa.
13  We saw two cars crashed on street, it was a mercy that no one was hurt.
14  The criminal tried to adjure to the court for mercy.
15  Beneath a lustrous 33-metre bronze statue of Guanyin, the Bodhisattva of mercy, a young monk tallies the cash donated by visiting faithful.