Sentence examples for stayed mercifully from inspiring English sources

And while the paper bag stayed mercifully in the back of the seat in front of me, it was – like most of them – a dreadful flight.

A brief state of grace -- we had first to review with our hostess each of the dishes and select our accompanying beverages -- mercifully stayed our hands.

Mercifully for the Scot, the front-right tyre stayed tethered to the car after it appeared to bounce off his helmet at one point.

He stayed on the road the rest of the year, and then mercifully called it quits; his mind and body gave out before his desire did.

Mercifully, family and friends provided rides from and to suburban Bethesda where I stayed and took me to visit old and new sights.

Down at the bottom of the mountain I am staying at the QT Falls Creek, which is mercifully very close to the chairlift.

Mercifully, my father has better sense and stays home on election day, intoxicating away any misguided desire to vote.James Moyer Cleveland, Ohio* Letter appears online only.

Here's hoping they can stay out of their own end zone before this thing is mercifully over.

Please feels like a witty update of the Faces' Stay With Me: the smug roué of the latter song having mercifully learned a few manners in the intervening 44 years.

Mercifully few regimes, and few armies, are willing to kill large numbers of their own people to stay in power.

As entertaining as their engagements are to watch – one thinks of Cherie Blair v all working mothers – the animosity between stay-at-home and working parents seems, mercifully, to be waning.