How to Use mercifully in a Sentence

mercifully

adverb

• His crimes have been dealt with mercifully.
• Mercifully, the professor always makes our tests easy.
• The Packers drove to the two-yard line and then mercifully ran out the clock.
  — Los Angeles Times, 19 Dec. 2022
• The Browns 17-14 loss to the Jets mercifully saw no airtime at The Moose.
  — Phillip Morris, cleveland.com, 25 Oct. 2017
• Not quite four air miles from the ocean, the site is mercifully cool for the players.
  — Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Oct. 2021
• Much of the rest of the country will mercifully remain dry, the NWS said.
  — Patrick Smith, NBC News, 23 Nov. 2023
• The call was overturned to an out on review and mercifully brought the first frame to an end.
  — Jr Radcliffe, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 22 June 2019
• Next up is the chorus, which is mercifully the same, but longer.
  — Lauren Huff, EW.com, 12 Nov. 2021
• The voodoo has mercifully fallen by the wayside, for the most part.
  — Dustin Nelson, EW.com, 30 Oct. 2023
• The new room has the same roses on the wall, but mercifully faded.
  — Mavis Gallant, The New Yorker, 14 Aug. 2022
• The first stop on our noise tour was, mercifully, a place of quiet.
  — Bianca Bosker, The Atlantic, 8 Oct. 2019
• The youngest, 4-year-old Prince Louis, is, mercifully, at home.
  — Los Angeles Times, 19 Sep. 2022
• Believe it or not, Jerry’s first-round record in the decade that just mercifully left us was the best of the last three.
  — Kevin Sherrington, Dallas News, 13 Jan. 2021
• Many things have changed on The Masked Singer stage over the years, but one thing has remained mercifully the same — the clue packages.
  — Lauren Huff, EW.com, 22 Sep. 2022
• In fact, Mitchell won’t be on the floor the rest of the season – which, perhaps mercifully, is only more four games.
  — Lewis Bagley, The Indianapolis Star, 31 July 2022
• That was the seventh game of the Rangers' stretch of 14 straight to open the season, which mercifully ends Thursday with their first day off.
  — Jeff Wilson, star-telegram, 9 Apr. 2018
• On your device’s home screen, the name for each will mercifully remain the same (for now).
  — Chris Welch, The Verge, 2 Aug. 2019
• And yet for all the problems the streamer has faced in the last 12 months, churning out hit shows has (mercifully) not been one of them.
  — Vulture, 16 Dec. 2022
• By far the biggest change though comes in the circle, where Dail is mercifully no longer alone.
  — James Crepea | The Oregonian/oregonlive, oregonlive, 17 Jan. 2020
• My daughter mercifully missed the land grabs and the water wars fought above the rasping aquifers.
  — Karen Russell, The New Yorker, 4 Oct. 2021
• My reign as head cook on day 17 had been mercifully brief.
  — Jeff Winkler, The Atlantic, 30 Dec. 2020
• The needle drops have been great, and the anachronisms mercifully scant — this is a show that feels like the 1990s without banging you on the head about it.
  — Brennan Carley, Vulture, 13 May 2021
• Both are rich, creamy and a little spicy, and for a few hours the voices in my head are mercifully quiet.
  — New York Times, 10 Feb. 2022
• The Pistons mercifully end this five-game road trip in hopes of one single win.
  — Tyler J. Davis, Detroit Free Press, 3 Dec. 2021
• The Detect app—which mercifully includes a step-by-step guide—will alert you when the tube is ready to be taken out.
  — Joanna Stern, WSJ, 27 Jan. 2022
• Randall tries to change the subject and then mercifully is called away.
  — Maggie Fremont, Vulture, 25 May 2021
• Fox, mercifully, missed the open fastbreak layup on the other end.
  — Omari Sankofa Ii, Detroit Free Press, 10 Jan. 2024
• But finally, mercifully, things have turned a bit at the plate for Omar Narváez.
  — Tom Haudricourt, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 26 Aug. 2020
• Election season is mercifully over but Courtland Sutton took a couple of minutes at his locker Monday night to stump.
  — Parker Gabriel, The Denver Post, 2 Dec. 2024
• Any damage from the storm would add to difficulties the region faces cleaning up from hurricanes Helene and Milton as the devastating 2024 hurricane season mercifully draws closer to a close.
  — John Bacon, USA TODAY, 17 Nov. 2024

Last Updated: 28 Jan 2025