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Example sentences for "human being"

  • He is trained like an animal rather than educated like a human being.

  • Achievement comes to denote the sort of thing that a well-planned machine can do better than a human being can, and the main effect of education, the achieving of a life of rich significance, drops by the wayside.

  • Let but the will of a human being be turned to any particular object, and it is ten to one that sooner or later he achieves it.

  • The breast of a human being; the part, between the arms, to which anything is pressed when embraced by them.

  • Baba," whispered Alessandro, as if he were speaking to a human being.

  • Her face was sunny, she had a joyous voice, and never was seen to pass a human being without a cheerful greeting, to highest and lowest the same.

  • As mischievously as if he had been a human being or an elf, Baba bounded to one side and tore the lovers apart.

  • But I was a human being, and had a human being's wants: I must not linger where there was nothing to supply them.

  • Without speaking, without smiling, without seeming to recognise in me a human being, he only twined my waist with his arm and riveted me to his side.

  • The state of being man as a human being, or man as distinguished from a child or a woman.

  • One who kills a human being; one who commits manslaughter.

  • Resembling a human being in form or nature; human.

  • The slaying of a human being; destruction of men.

  • A human being, suddenly emancipated from a state of subjection, if we may not call it slavery, and transported into a state of freedom, must be expected to be guilty of some extravagancies and follies.

  • In the mean time, if we confine ourselves to this definition, it may as well be taken to describe the best application of a knife, or any other implement proceeding from the hands of the manufacturer, as of the powers of a human being.

  • We readily see to what an extent the male sun god was portrayed in mythology as a human being.

  • It is easier to imagine than to act, so no human being is free of this tendency.

  • The use of force is natural to the male; while as a human being he must needs legislate somewhat in the interests of the community, as a male being he sees no necessity for other enforcement than by penalty.

  • She will not be a woman less, but a human being more.

  • There is no human being whom I love with more tenderness and whose welfare is nearer my heart.

  • It was doubtless a human being, and would befriend me so far as to aid me in arresting this offender.

  • The state of my mind naturally introduced a train of reflections upon the dangers and cares which inevitably beset a human being.

  • A human being was at hand, who was conscious of my presence, and warned me hereafter to avoid this retreat.

  • Decease is the term used in law for the removal of a human being out of life in the ordinary course of nature.

  • A corpse; the dead body of a human being.

  • A human being possessed by a demon or evil spirit; one whose faculties are directly controlled by a demon.

  • The dead body of a human being; -- used also Fig.

  • A human being shut up in a room, of which every crack is closed, with a pan of burning charcoal, falls asleep, never to wake again.

  • But a human being who is young and clean, as you are, is apt to ennoble--or explain away.

  • I want to be a human being; I want to learn about things and know about things, and not to be protected as something too precious for life, cooped up in one narrow little corner.

  • It is hard enough anyhow for a human being to learn, she decided, but it is a dozen times more difficult than it need be because of all this locking of the lips and thoughts.

  • Jack, poor boy, you are not a human being--you are not even a beast.

  • If I am not now a human being," replied Bulan, "I intend to be one, and so I shall act as a human being should act.

  • I am sure that there exists no human being, no human age, to whom or to which that gracious, consolatory power of dreaming is totally a stranger.

  • The strongest constructive factor in the education of a human being is the settled, quiet order of home, its peace, and its duty.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "human being" 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:
    agricultural output; called spontaneous; hear what; human activities; human affection; human anatomy; human being; human beings; human character; human creature; human culture; human destiny; human dignity; human food; human frailty; human government; human happiness; human liberty; human mind; human natur; human skeleton; human slavery; human societies; human suffering; human victims; human wisdom