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How to use mercifully in a sentence

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Before the tears came, Doctor Lee mercifully injected Robert with a powerful sedative.
Martin turned the ball over twice and committed two fouls during his mercifully brief stint.
Lots of us there lost loved ones, but only for terrifying and mercifully brief moments.
At this point, Zack's Aunt mercifully intervened and took him inside to feed him some pasta and fudgsicles.
Although we batten down all bottles and loose items, this time, mercifully, there is only a moderate swell.
We almost got out of the inning on our own, but mercifully, the other team had batted through the lineup, which meant it was our turn to bat.
Violent crime here is mercifully rare, despite some terrifying recent incidents.
The rogue doctor, the Hippocratic saviour turned hypocritic slayer, is a mercifully rare medical phenomenon in this country.
The following morning, mercifully sunny, I shopped for gifts in the back streets and then headed for the airport.
Breakfast, they discovered, consisted of partially-risen popovers, overcooked scrambled eggs, and, mercifully, mounds of fresh fruit.
Fortunately, I don't have time to take her up on her offer, so Amherst audiences were mercifully spared.
Quickly and mercifully, the initial apprehension disappears as the book turns into an intense and absorbing read.
The Pontypool fighter followed up with a quick-fire, accurate assault until Paisley's corner mercifully threw in the towel.
And speaking of mud, the festival mercifully escaped the rain that was lashing York.
I was finally, mercifully, closing the door to my religious past and beginning life anew.
And if you're still not convinced life's a drag, several annoying but mercifully brief musical numbers jackhammer the point home.
I was hanging over the edge of the bed, gagging and retching, though mercifully nothing was coming out.
I sailed on towards Wellington Harbour 70 miles away, saved only by the branches of a willow tree trailing mercifully within arm's reach.
It would be mercifully brief, but it probably wouldn't do the sheer awfulness of this film justice.
The first, next Thursday, will involve Gareth and I running off together to be wed in a mercifully brief ceremony.
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Examples from Classical Literature
But the veil mercifully returned, and with it Dick's worked-up sense of injury.
Having rightly and mercifully threatened to take it, it not only rightly may take it, but expediently must.
And substituted orange juice very mercifully for what had grown to be a somewhat monotonous carousal in malted milk.
And she mercifully refrained from spoken pity, which he felt he could not have borne just then.
It is mercifully granted that the intensity of present suffering is not realized.
The pencil flash, mercifully, still rested in a fold of his shoulder joint fabric.
But he was mercifully too accustomed to nocturnal orgies, and those of a far more uproarious character, to appear unless summoned to the scene.
And mercifully she ceased, perceiving that she had said enough.
But his look was mercifully hidden from his victim by unconsciousness.
She was spared the sin of such a prayer for, maddened at his disappointment, and excited at the sight of blood, the Huron mercifully drove his tomahawk into her own brain.
Arthur had then fallen into a doze, and he mercifully let him sleep on.
Now, for most folks one pair of legs lasts a lifetime, and that must be because they use them mercifully, as a tender-hearted old lady uses her roly-poly old coach-horses.
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