merciless
Example Sentences
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Contemporaries regarded this merciless battle as “a second Agincourt,” akin to Henry V’s victory, against the odds, in 1415.
Barely two years in, Maye’s the shiniest star in a merciless sports metropolis—and he’s one Sunday victory from all the local Bradys naming their future firstborns Drake.
A moist, merciless heat engulfed us, and the strangling smell forced its way down my nose and throat.
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The journalist James Agee’s merciless portraits of his subjects remind Mr. Frazier of “those old-time operations that were done on a kitchen table without anesthetic.”
They were all failed attempts to impose western civilization on the merciless, untamable Arctic.
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