How to Use merciless in a Sentence

merciless

adjective
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  • He has been merciless in his criticism of his opponent.
  • The virus has been merciless to nursing homes around Kentucky.
    — Mandy McLaren, The Courier-Journal, 14 Apr. 2020
  • Plebe year was rough due to the merciless hazing by upperclassmen, and MacArthur came in for his share.
    — National Geographic, 9 Jan. 2020
  • The litany of plagues was merciless: too many grapes, thanks to an epic haul in California and Washington.
    — Ben Ryder Howe, New York Times, 9 May 2020
  • Although the odds may always be stacked in favor of the merciless, cold depths of the sea, a few dozen lucky people have taken that unintentional ride down to the ocean floor and lived to see daylight again.
    — Rachel Lance, Wired, 7 Apr. 2020
  • With merciless figures from his past pursuing him, The Man’s search for answers propels him through the vast and unforgiving outback.
    — Alex Ritman, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 Feb. 2020
  • The trip immediately takes a turn for the worse when a group of convicts on the run, led by the merciless Dominick (James), suddenly invade the lake house.
    — Clark Collis, EW.com, 7 May 2020
  • No infectious disease in a century has exacted as swift and merciless a toll on the United States as covid-19.
    — Washington Post, 24 Apr. 2020
  • There is only time for this merciless inventory: Their death together in the winter of 1847.
    — Hannah Aizenman, The New Yorker, 29 Apr. 2020
  • This year’s preshow was free of insurrection, other than Billy Porter’s merciless domination of the red carpet, this time in white satin and feathers.
    — Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 6 Jan. 2020
  • Unlike the economy, in which actions and consequences are separated by months or years, the coronavirus exposes the errors of leaders with merciless speed.
    — The Economist, 13 Apr. 2020
  • The merciless world of 1666 holds the truth behind a powerful curse — and the key to one town’s future.
    — Jacob Siegal, BGR, 11 July 2021
  • The Pacific Northwest is in the midst of a merciless heat wave.
    — Caleb Miller, Car and Driver, 29 June 2021
  • Dust mites, those stealthy home invaders that can wage a merciless war on our health.
    — Terry Baddoo, USA TODAY, 21 Apr. 2022
  • And in the days after the sighting, their colleagues were merciless.
    — Washington Post, 24 May 2021
  • Such is the merciless vision of this novel: The past is ever present.
    — Lauren Fox, WSJ, 26 Feb. 2021
  • But as the song goes, Broadway can often be a merciless place.
    — Lee Cowan, CBS News, 31 Dec. 2023
  • So, will any makeover tone down the merciless mocking of Latter-day Saints (the heart of the production)?
    — David Noyce, The Salt Lake Tribune, 17 June 2021
  • But the trip soon takes a turn for the worse when convicts on the run, led by the merciless Dominick, suddenly invade the home.
    — Ed Stockly, Los Angeles Times, 9 Apr. 2021
  • And Joyce, who has led Qantas since 2008, has been merciless.
    — Angus Whitley, Fortune, 26 June 2021
  • For viewers, the switch from Parties in Paradise to Too Hot is swift and merciless.
    — Ariana Romero, refinery29.com, 28 June 2021
  • The dozens of comments on Reddit were even more merciless.
    — Alexa Gagosz, BostonGlobe.com, 1 Sep. 2023
  • In the merciless heat, Case lies down on his shooting blanket.
    — Patrick Cooke, Smithsonian Magazine, 19 Nov. 2021
  • If a friend had bought a showy car, a Mercedes or a Cadillac, judgment would have been merciless and swift.
    — Mark Oppenheimer, WSJ, 23 July 2022
  • Most of all, Godard was merciless in his pursuit of what (and how) images mean.
    — Georg Szalai, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 Sep. 2022
  • What Mir speaks to are the merciless conditions of poverty and the decades of neglect, which no medicine can overcome.
    — New York Times, 31 Mar. 2021
  • The school's all-time leader in kills is powerful and merciless in the front row and a rock in the back row, always dependable to get a dig.
    — David J. Kim, The Courier-Journal, 7 Oct. 2020
  • In the end, the merciless culture of competition can push students over the edge.
    — Zishaan A Latif Mansi Choksi, New York Times, 18 Jan. 2023
  • Pundits, columnists roast Biden The pundit class’s turn on President Biden has been swift and merciless.
    — Jonathan Easley, The Hill, 9 July 2024
  • Given the chance to save his true love by sacrificing himself, Eric sets out to seek merciless revenge on their killers, traversing the worlds of the living and the dead to put the wrong things right.
    — Samantha Bergeson, IndieWire, 2 July 2024

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