Sentence examples for it mercifully from inspiring English sources

And when it mercifully took its leave, the shriek seemed somehow diluted, too - a satisfying state of affairs for spectators, perhaps, but never a good one for Maria, who seems to need the intensity the noise brings.

Maybe it mercifully popped, but probably not.

And wrap up, it mercifully did.

Once again, the link between the geostrategic event and the real-world consequence is, to put it mercifully, attenuated.

And though the training book is now rather dog-eared, the cat has left it mercifully unchewed.

The show calculatedly pushes as many buttons as an elevator operator, but it mercifully doesn't hammer at them.

It was a crude "amateurish" device, as Mayor Bloomberg described it, and it had mercifully failed to detonate.

When you switch it on you discover it is mercifully quiet, and all it wants to do is help you.

An hour after it started, it was mercifully over.

It has a hard, fast vibrato that can give it an almost bleating quality; but it is mercifully un-nasal (rare today for this voice type), and it rises to a fine, free top, which Mr. Flórez knows how to sustain in style.

Over the course of seven and a half minutes, the company puts the poor robot through hell, shooting it with its own gun and whacking the hell out of it with a wrecking ball, until it finally, mercifully, tips over.