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Example sentences for "human beings"

  • However sceptical we may be with regard to social panaceas of all sorts, we cannot dismiss with a few hackneyed phrases a gigantic experiment in social science involving the material and moral welfare of many millions of human beings.

  • They had been taught by the apostles whom they venerated, from Belinski downwards, that the man who simply talks about the good of the people, and does nothing to promote it, is among the most contemptible of human beings.

  • The Spirit of the Corn embodied in Human Beings 4.

  • The Burning of Human Beings in the Fires 1.

  • When this has happened, the people generally burn the body of the serpent, just as they burn the bodies of human beings.

  • Further, animals are often conceived to possess qualities of properties which might be useful to man, and homoeopathic or imitative magic seeks to communicate these properties to human beings in various ways.

  • Human beings, who in their marriage ceremonies array themselves to the best advantage and assume their most charming traits, can hardly withhold attention from other and more ethereal creatures when they become subject to the divine passion.

  • During this interval Ormusd created the sky, the waters, the earth, all useful plants, trees and herbs, the ox and the first pair of human beings in one year.

  • The surface of the earth is inhabited by human beings having a share in the three great cosmic kingdoms.

  • It is nothing more than the arbitrary decision and wishful thinking of human beings to believe that the gods are on the side of good.

  • Immoral in the extreme, even in their dreams they do not know of the natural way of human beings.

  • Even now, Nostradamus is surely watching from afar, boasting over the accuracy of his prediction, and laughing at the insatiable progress, prosperity, and obsessive delusions of us human beings.

  • To utter with the mouth; to pronounce; to utter articulately, as human beings.

  • One who sings; one skilled in singing; -- not often applied to human beings.

  • Such unheard-of expenditure for the purpose of maintaining vast armies of human beings caged up like wild beasts!

  • Peace or harmony between the sexes and individuals does not necessarily depend on a superficial equalization of human beings; nor does it call for the elimination of individual traits and peculiarities.

  • I believe I am more interested in human beings than in anything else in the world--when they are natural, as these people are and when they will tell one their joys and their troubles and their opinions.

  • The scene changed, now she was gazing at a mass of human beings hemmed in by a line of soldiers.

  • Now, he asked, how were we to recognize God, how might we know how he wished us to live, unless we saw him in human beings, in the souls into which he had entered?

  • New York, or that strip of it which is known to the more fortunate of human beings, is a place to raise one's spirits on a sparkling day in early winter.

  • These figures, though often representing Hermes, were used for other divinities, and even, in later times, for portraits of human beings.

  • One of most enviable of human beings.

  • It may transmitted to dogs, goats, sheep, and to human beings.

  • A term denoting the standard, or system, of morality deducible from a study of the nature and natural relations of human beings independent of supernatural revelation or of municipal and social usages.

  • Farcy, although more common in horses, is communicable to other animals and to human beings.

  • To cut squarely across, as the tail of a horse, or the forelock of human beings; to cut (the hair).

  • Who, on the whole, constitute the nobler class of human beings?

  • Del Vecchio has reported a series of experiments on dogs with the conclusion that in case of wounds in human beings suture of the heart is a possible operation.

  • He sincerely worshipped his eldest brother as one of the noblest of human beings.

  • Alfred was the best, the kindest, the sanest of human beings.

  • Keep silence about his precious errand here, and you would fancy him the gentlest and most temperate of human beings; but touch the subject of his vagabond of an uncle, and the Monkton madness comes out directly.

  • Day by day the Master Woodsman and his pupil traversed the earth, Ak speaking but seldom to the youth who clung steadfastly to his girdle, but guiding him into all places where he might become familiar with the lives of human beings.

  • They could pass swiftly through the air from one part of the world to another, and had the power of influencing the minds of human beings to do their wicked will.

  • Let me train them to be human beings," replied Archibius gravely, "and preserve them from the desire to enter the lists with the gods.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "human beings" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    feel sure; hold slaves; human authority; human being; human blood; human conduct; human consciousness; human development; human felicity; human freedom; human hands; human immortality; human intercourse; human knowledge; human love; human natur; human personality; human prudence; human race; human shape; human suffering; human victims; human wisdom; passing through; sermon preached; various occasions