How to Use merciless in a Sentence

merciless

adjective
  • He has been merciless in his criticism of his opponent.
  • The end was swift and merciless.
    — Paul Sullivan, Chicago Tribune, 29 Mar. 2026
  • Dust mites, those stealthy home invaders that can wage a merciless war on our health.
    — Terry Baddoo, USA TODAY, 21 Apr. 2022
  • And as long as that’s their take, merciless heckling of those umps should be, too.
    — Rolling Stone, 29 June 2024
  • But they are not used to the weather being quite this merciless.
    — Andrew Van Dam, Washington Post, 4 June 2019
  • But some part of her yearns to be merciless—to make all these women confess.
    — Dan Piepenbring, Harper's Magazine, 2 Jan. 2025
  • My tongue could be sharp and merciless, but never with Samy.
    — Literary Hub, 5 Dec. 2025
  • Every day, my melanin launches merciless war against a world that seeks to beat it down.
    — Malavika Kannan, Teen Vogue, 17 May 2018
  • But the land is merciless, and their dreams are shattered when a wildfire breaks out.
    — Samantha Stutsman, PEOPLE, 16 May 2026
  • Both missions had to contend with the same merciless icescapes.
    — Sean Kingsley, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Oct. 2024
  • The press was merciless for what seemed like forever.
    — Virginia Chamlee, PEOPLE, 20 Dec. 2025
  • But even the great players have been on the receiving end of merciless boos.
    — Chris Kirschner, New York Times, 26 Apr. 2025
  • But as the song goes, Broadway can often be a merciless place.
    — Lee Cowan, CBS News, 31 Dec. 2023
  • But Yesha was merciless because that is, in fact, just her middle name.
    — Breanna Edwards, The Root, 20 Oct. 2017
  • And the bracket carnage was swift and merciless.
    — Ryan Brennan, Kansas City Star, 20 Mar. 2026
  • In the merciless heat, Case lies down on his shooting blanket.
    — Patrick Cooke, Smithsonian Magazine, 19 Nov. 2021
  • 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
  • The Heat’s roller-coaster season has come to a merciless end.
    — Jared Weiss, New York Times, 29 Apr. 2025
  • The 9-0 Hoosiers are just merciless.
    — Stewart Mandel, New York Times, 2 Nov. 2025
  • The virus has been merciless to nursing homes around Kentucky.
    — Mandy McLaren, The Courier-Journal, 14 Apr. 2020
  • And in the days after the sighting, their colleagues were merciless.
    — Washington Post, 24 May 2021
  • The Knicks faithful can be merciless like that sometimes.
    — Kristian Winfield, New York Daily News, 3 Jan. 2026
  • Most of all, Godard was merciless in his pursuit of what (and how) images mean.
    — Georg Szalai, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 Sep. 2022
  • Somewhere in the black, merciless hole of addiction, a tiny piece of hope survived.
    — Kay Warren, Time, 22 Feb. 2018
  • But is my merciless game persona merely nurture, or does nature have something to do with it too?
    — Julie Beck, The Atlantic, 17 Sep. 2025
  • As merciless as the attacks on our neighbors to the north were, few took actual offense.
    — S.e. Cupp, New York Daily News, 21 Aug. 2025
  • 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
  • Streets of Fire centers on a merciless biker gang that kidnaps a rock singer named Ellen.
    — Travis Bean, Forbes, 5 June 2021
  • The jokes on social media will be endless, and opposing fans will be merciless.
    — Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 20 May 2026
  • The Pacific Northwest is in the midst of a merciless heat wave.
    — Caleb Miller, Car and Driver, 29 June 2021

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