How to Use merciless in a Sentence

merciless

adjective

• He has been merciless in his criticism of his opponent.
• 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
• But they are not used to the weather being quite this merciless.
  — Andrew Van Dam, Washington Post, 4 June 2019
• Workers said the gift was dropped at the gate by a young girl after the merciless fire reshaped so many worlds.
  — Bryce Miller, sandiegouniontribune.com, 15 Dec. 2017
• 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
• His merciless attacks on the PRI are a double-edged sword.
  — The Economist, 24 Feb. 2018
• The dozens of comments on Reddit were even more merciless.
  — Alexa Gagosz, BostonGlobe.com, 1 Sep. 2023
• In Chraïbi’s novel, the idea of a past entirely cut off from the present is held up to merciless critique.
  — Adam Shatz, The New York Review of Books, 2 Jan. 2020
• Both missions had to contend with the same merciless icescapes.
  — Sean Kingsley, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Oct. 2024
• The virus has been merciless to nursing homes around Kentucky.
  — Mandy McLaren, The Courier-Journal, 14 Apr. 2020
• Every day, my melanin launches merciless war against a world that seeks to beat it down.
  — Malavika Kannan, Teen Vogue, 17 May 2018
• In the merciless heat, Case lies down on his shooting blanket.
  — Patrick Cooke, Smithsonian Magazine, 19 Nov. 2021
• Still, one pair of snarky bloggers have been merciless.
  — Laura Morgan, Harper's BAZAAR, 16 Sep. 2009
• 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
• After rolling in the first round, the Wild never got going in a merciless four-game sweep against the Blackhawks, who went on to win the Stanley Cup.
  — Dane Mizutani, Twin Cities, 9 Apr. 2017
• 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
• But Yesha was merciless because that is, in fact, just her middle name.
  — Breanna Edwards, The Root, 20 Oct. 2017
• The Wolverines piled up 467 total yards and were merciless in throwing the ball well into the fourth quarter.
  — Orion Sang, Detroit Free Press, 16 Nov. 2019
• 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
• Because Alice Munro wrote these women, their perception is as merciless as hers.
  — Madeline Leung Coleman, Vulture, 15 May 2024

Last Updated: 18 Dec 2024