Sentence examples for mercifully stopped from inspiring English sources

We ended up using the vacuum quite often until my daughter, mercifully, stopped her frantic crying weeks later.

The dogs that had been fighting in the bushes had gone and the raucous rock music that had been pulsating from the town a mile away had mercifully stopped.

Although the combat had mercifully stopped the bad memories hadn't.

So now that the sides have mercifully stopped grandstanding to the press every five seconds and begun to hammer away in private, there is tight security on who is taking the worst beating and who can appear the least wretched to the American public when this bloated dung bag is finally sent up for a vote.

Grisly stuff, but the production mercifully stops short of suggesting the heinous acts themselves.

When Gammons alluded to a recent divorce, mercifully stopping short of referring to the dalliance with Madonna, Rodriguez passively said he had just gone through a rough 15 months.

The shortest format brings an influx of overseas stars to glam up the nights under lights – though the marketing men mercifully stop short of the full on "cricketainment" of Australia's Big Bash League and India's IPL.

In the movie, when the referee mercifully stops the fight as LaMotta is pummeled on the ropes, Jake defiantly shouts at Robinson: "You never got me down, Ray, you never got me down".

But as I curled to absorb the blow and dropped my hands (the absolute wrong thing to do), his foot redirected in mid-flight, snapping up at my head but mercifully stopping inches from my exposed face.

The fence behind one of the goals is mercifully large, stopping stray balls from ending up in the long grass of a bayou drainage ditch that, rumour has it, contains venomous snakes.

Mercifully, the pain stopped at four.