Merciful has 3 syllables and the stress is on the first syllable.
| # | Sentence | |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | Be merciful, just as your Father is merciful. | |
| 2. | She is merciful. | |
| 3. | In the name of God, The most Gracious, The most Merciful. | |
| 4. | In the name of God, Most Gracious, Most Merciful. | |
| 5. | The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far. The sciences, each straining in its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the deadly light into the peace and safety of a new dark age. | |
| 6. | Svetlana was a little too merciful with the feeder mice down at the pet store. The snakes nearly starved! | |
| 7. | I do plainly and ingenuously confess that I am guilty of corruption, and do renounce all defense. I beseech your Lordships to be merciful to a broken reed. | |
| 8. | I am not nice, I am merciful. | |
| 9. | In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful. | |
| 10. | Be merciful. |