How to Use of mercy in a Sentence
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But better still are the great things, the feeling of mercy.
—Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 19 Aug. 2022
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El Shafee Elsheikh was treated with a great deal of mercy.
—Matthew Barakat, The Arizona Republic, 14 Apr. 2022
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Yeoh plays Guanyin, the goddess of mercy, who doles out wisdom to Wei-Chin.
—Patrick Ryan, USA TODAY, 25 May 2023
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In a show of mercy, Georgia punted to open the third quarter.
—Blake Toppmeyer, USA TODAY, 10 Jan. 2023
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Mother of mercy, can this be the end of phony election claims?
—Clarence Page, Chicago Tribune, 20 Aug. 2023
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The sword of mercy, called Curtana, has a blunt tip because ... mercy.
—Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 3 May 2023
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Cullen also revealed that his killings were acts of mercy.
—Jasmine Washington, Seventeen, 28 Oct. 2022
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The notion of assistance in dying as an act of mercy is centuries old.
—Dominique Soguel, The Christian Science Monitor, 10 Jan. 2023
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Perhaps this is Mazin and Druckmann's way of telling the audience that sometimes acts of mercy can look an awful lot like acts of vengeance.
—Evan Romano, Men's Health, 12 Mar. 2023
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This is at best a sin of omission and, at worst, an act of mercy that aids these groups in appealing to more mainstream audiences.
—Melissa Gira Grant, The New Republic, 20 June 2023
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This is at best a sin of omission and, at worst, an act of mercy that aids these groups in appealing to more mainstream audiences.
—Melissa Gira Grant, The New Republic, 20 June 2023
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For his other sins, Balzac doesn’t let Lucien off so easily, but that one act of mercy may well be the thing that redeems him in our eyes.
—Peter Debruge, Variety, 6 Sep. 2021
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There is an argument to be made, though, that the loss of the money owed is a minimal price in the context of the profit that has been made, and that there is justice to this form of mercy.
—Abrahm Lustgarten, ProPublica, 27 July 2022
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The quality of mercy, it is said, is twice blessed, but A.I. needs to be thrice blessed if business is to succeed in using the technology.
—François Candelon, Fortune, 4 Feb. 2022
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While most of us know fight or flight as the response to danger, there’s also freeze and fawn — that last one being a reaction to appease and acquiesce in the hopes of mercy.
—Anita Chabriacolumnist, Los Angeles Times, 30 Oct. 2022
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Greenlee, who was 16 years old at the time, received a recommendation of mercy from the jury and received a life sentence.
—Kiara Alfonseca, ABC News, 26 Oct. 2021
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Going back to its English monarchical origins, a pardon has long been conceived as an act of mercy.
—Politifact Staff Writer, Dallas News, 1 Aug. 2023
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Going back to its English monarchical origins, a pardon has long been conceived as an act of mercy.
—Politifact Staff Writer, Dallas News, 9 June 2023
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Her repentance required remembering Krista and the Pearts’ gift to her of mercy and forgiveness.
—Greg Jaffe, Anchorage Daily News, 6 Jan. 2023
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In this historic temple, Buddhists learn the teachings of Buddha from a humanoid, the robotic embodiment of the Buddhist goddess of mercy, Kannon.
—Byhyerim Lee, ABC News, 15 June 2022
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The terror of a military occupation and quiet moments of mercy among neighbors underpinned daily life for weeks in Vorzel, a suburb surrounded by birch forests that is home to a few thousand people.
—Washington Post, 15 Apr. 2022
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The coming propitiation looms large — an angel of mercy hovering over this melodrama, even at its most melodramatic.
—Michael O'Sullivan, Washington Post, 11 July 2023
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The state’s second highest court batted down a legal challenge from two district attorneys and the families of four crime victims, who argued the governor’s acts of mercy were procedurally flawed and therefore unlawful.
—oregonlive, 10 Aug. 2022
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Despite an entirely circumstantial case with no eyewitnesses, the verdict came with no recommendation of mercy, and the judge sentenced Henderson to die in Georgia’s electric chair.
—al, 3 Mar. 2023
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An America that recognizes the humanity within Mr. Floyd's life and legacy is one that possesses a quality of mercy so often denied to victims of police, state, and structural violence.
—Peniel E. Joseph, CNN, 6 Oct. 2021
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These angels of mercy are a socially diverse group whose methods of survival are contrasted with Benjamin’s also ethnically varied acting students.
—Armond White, National Review, 2 Nov. 2022
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