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
• 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
• 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
• 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 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
• Plebe year was rough due to the merciless hazing by upperclassmen, and MacArthur came in for his share.
  — National Geographic, 9 Jan. 2020
• Streets of Fire centers on a merciless biker gang that kidnaps a rock singer named Ellen.
  — Travis Bean, Forbes, 5 June 2021
• And lost 1-0, Maradona spending more time on the ground from a merciless parade of cynical fouls.
  — Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Nov. 2020
• It’s merciless and biting about the entertainment ecosystem and lets the Dubeks skate all the way up to succumbing to the dark side.
  — Jen Chaney, Vulture, 26 Aug. 2021
• Pundits, columnists roast Biden The pundit class’s turn on President Biden has been swift and merciless.
  — Jonathan Easley, The Hill, 9 July 2024
• This strength was demonstrated again by their performance in the middle of a merciless rainstorm.
  — Billboard Japan, Billboard, 17 July 2024

Last Updated: 25 Sep 2024