Sentence examples for mercifully still from inspiring English sources

The cathedral is mercifully still standing.

Iraq, mercifully, still has a few hurdles to overcome in its nuclear weapons program.

Before that, Roland Joffe's Vatel, a Louis XIV period piece mercifully still unreleased in the UK, reeked to high heaven.

Tony McCoy was mercifully still in one piece as he completed his last day's jump racing before the Cheltenham Festival.

In case you are wondering, at this point the WBO was mercifully still little more than a twinkle in a Puerto Rican businessman's eye.

Even if nothing was wrong, his heart raced with other considerations: His five children, ages 5 and under, including his week-old daughter, were mercifully still asleep, and he wanted to keep it that way.

Mercifully, however, they are still pretty rare.

Think of Manji as a nerve ending for the West -- shocking, raw, but mercifully, joyously, still alive.

The ousting of the Taliban (though not what followed it) had the merit of being well executed and mercifully brief, yet still there was a price to pay.

Maurice East "Rye Lane is still mercifully ungentrified.

Henry was held with little human contact in a mercifully clean though still unpleasant cell.