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Example sentences for "merely human"

  • Its divine origin and destiny are never obscured; but knowledge is regarded as merely human, and, therefore, as falling short of the truth.

  • They, too, regard the intellect as merely human, and the emotion of love as divine.

  • In truth, in the work of humanity two tendencies are usually undistinguished, which, if life is to continue to advance, need to be distinctly separated: a spiritual culture and a merely human culture.

  • To the spiritual movement, the advancement of merely human well-being is far too mean an aim.

  • If we were to look for a primary cause for such barbaric criminality in merely human motives, we should fail to find one at all commensurate with the enormity of the guilt.

  • The Scriptures are the production equally of God and of man, and are therefore never to be regarded as merely human or merely divine.

  • The conviction is growing that the words, as they stand in all the Greek texts, cannot have been the utterance of a merely human Jesus, the pattern of truthfulness and the example of humility.

  • If she is merely human, why do not the laws of all other human societies appear to affect her too?

  • She is content with nothing but a Divine Peace, and in its cause is the occasion of bloodier wars than any waged from merely human motives.

  • She will give up all that is merely human, if the world will have it so, and will resist not evil if it merely concerns herself.

  • Consider how the case stands with a merely human author.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "merely human" 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:
    ages past; attendance upon; batter made; blood twelve; cavalry force; cold chisel; food value; for instance; immense fortune; linear series; make your; merely because; merely formal; merely human; merely natural; merely subjective; merely the; merely wished; nearly straight; noble duke; promoted over the trees; show itself; son temps; that sense; twenty acres; you the