Sentence examples for mercifully finished from inspiring English sources

Of course they are both old men, part of a generation that is dying out, and soon enough their era will be mercifully finished.

When the film mercifully finished, I crawled into bed and stared wide-eyed at my door for most of the night while my friend snuffled peacefully, completely oblivious to my terror.

— and were still incomplete by 7 p.m.— should, mercifully, be finished by then.

McIlroy (plus-eight) also finished, mercifully.

Alan Gilbert, the director of New York's Philharmonic and the conductor of the performance, ultimately took matters into his own baton-wielding hands:He stopped the orchestra and turned, one witness said, and sternly asked the offender: "Are you finished?"Mercifully, the phone was hushed.

Mercifully, once Pollack has finished describing this contest in excruciating detail, he has a number of things to say that are intelligent instead of clever.

To either relief or laughs, the teams were mercifully set to finish their season rivalry with little at stake beyond avoiding further humiliation.

He finished sixth and mercifully took only 24 hours to quit the race.

Dog Days mercifully over, we head to the Replay stage to find that Rob Da Bank has cleverly decided to put the night's real headliners on a small stage after the main bill is finished.

The meal was finished with a Dacquoise dessert, a hazelnut cake with chocolate ice cream, rich and delicious, but not over powering and mercifully proportioned so that it wasn't too large a serving.

The Montreal Expos finally and mercifully returned home Thursday night, finishing a ruthless 25-day road trip in which they visited six cities and traveled around 11,000 miles.