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Example sentences for "reasonable being"

  • Desires that are not physical, not natural nor necessary to man in his animal capacity, may be highly natural and becoming to man as he is a reasonable being, or they may be highly unbecoming.

  • It is a departure from the order of man's progress as a reasonable being (c.

  • In a word, there is no other way to make a reasonable being out of a sensuous man than by making him first aesthetic.

  • Believing that the view I took of the situation was a right one, I had resigned myself like a reasonable being, and not like a disappointed lover.

  • The moment it was proved to me that a reasonable being ought to be guided only by his own inductions I acknowledged the sway of reason, and the mist which hid truth from me was dispelled.

  • She had never been, like her husband, a believer in ghosts: superstitions of all sorts were to her mind unworthy of a reasonable being.

  • He spoke like a reasonable being--he said the doctor was waiting for me, in Madame Fontaine's room.

  • If there's anything I hate, it is "a reasonable being.

  • Says the husband to his sick or overtasked wife, when she cries from mere mental or physical exhaustion, "How I hate tears; do be a reasonable being.

  • It is unworthy of a reasonable being to spend any of the little time allotted us, without some tendency, either direct or oblique, to the end of our existence.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "reasonable 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:
    earth could; existing things; fallen women; fruit juices; further south; large bottle; made dishes; mighty good; morrow afternoon; only three; other officer; peace and; prepositional phrase; reasonable amount; reasonable being; reasonable creature; reasonable doubt; reasonable price; reasonable rates; reasonable terms; reasonable time; rectified spirits; refined petroleum; reproductive cells; said this; will appoint