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Sentence count:291+25Posted:2016-12-14Updated:2020-07-24
Synonym: charitycompassionkindnesspitysympathyAntonym: crueltySimilar words: at the mercy ofcommercemerchantcommercialmerecoercefiercepierceMeaning: ['mɜrsɪ /'mɜːsɪ]  n. 1. leniency and compassion shown toward offenders by a person or agency charged with administering justice 2. a disposition to be kind and forgiving 3. the feeling that motivates compassion 4. something for which to be thankful 5. alleviation of distress; showing great kindness toward the distressed. 
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211. Whatever was creeping towards them through the half-open door would have them completely at its mercy.
212. Having lost engine power, the boat's crew found themselves at the mercy of the wind.
213. Appeal courts are expected to show some mercy because the defendant has twice had to face the ordeal of being sentenced.
214. The day your blessed mother, may the Lord have mercy on her, was taken from me!
215. They may petition for mercy from the prime minister in his capacity as military governor.
216. If he pleads guilty and begs for the mercy of the court, he may get off with a fine and deportation.
217. The prisoner was in so much pain all he could do was scream and beg for mercy.
218. Hypocrite: the man who murdered both his parents... pleaded for mercy on the grounds that he was an orphan. Abraham Lincoln 
219. She was the tide, and Rohan her inexorable moon, beckoning her without mercy to some unknown strand.
220. Of course, the idiot now understands the reason for my mercy.
221. Soldiers now face the harsh reality of their mercy mission in the barren country.
222. You're so sweet I just wanted to throw myself on your mercy and beg you to help me.
222. Sentencedict.com try its best to collect and create good sentences.
223. Abolitionists in both the North and South were left to the mercy of local officials who usually refused protection.
224. He ruled with justice and mercy, befriending the Moors rather than seeking to overpower them with his presence.
225. It is not that they showed no mercy on the streets of Jericho.
226. Nomatterwhat the situation, she would not ask Nicolo for mercy.
227. Without this, a person is completely at the mercy of the dangers that menace from without.
228. They would insult each other without mercy but with great humour.
229. He was chunky and had a baby face and came to Our Lady of Mercy as a seasoned street fighter.
230. The class have to plead for mercy on his behalf, but the King's envoy will only accept written pleas.
231. Hence I have no mercy or compassion in me for a society that will crush people, and then penalize them for not being able to stand up under the weight. Malcolm X 
232. Under the guise of complimenting Elizabeth's mercy, Spenser is implying she is easily manipulated by others.
233. There was nothing of mercy on the wind that day.
234. Dubuque community leaders were persuaded that a merger of Mercy and Finley offered the best chance to stem growing costs.
235. More important, he has met an ideal of which his regime was totally ignorant: mercy.
236. Their innermost secrets had been at the mercy of the West for a year.
237. With monarchy, the essential problem is that power is put at the mercy of relatives and genetics.
238. They already have a Hercules plane running mercy missions to Sarajevo.
239. We all live at the mercy of our emotions. Our motions influence and shape our desires, thoughts and behaviors and above all our destiny. Dr T.P.Chia 
240. For a craven moment she was tempted to go back and throw herself on the mercy of the landlady.
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