HUMAN in a Sentence

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Leaning back in the cab, this amateur bloodhound carolled away like a lark while I meditated upon the many-sidedness of the human mind.

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 Meanings and Examples of HUMAN
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
human
 n.  a man, woman, or child, not an animal
 a.  having or showing the better qualities of man
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  That any civilized human being in this nineteenth century should not be aware that the earth travelled round the sun appeared to be to me such an extraordinary fact that I could hardly realize it.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER II. THE SCIENCE OF DEDUCTION
2  On his rigid face there stood an expression of horror, and as it seemed to me, of hatred, such as I have never seen upon human features.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER III. THE LAURISTON GARDEN MYSTERY
3  Leaning back in the cab, this amateur bloodhound carolled away like a lark while I meditated upon the many-sidedness of the human mind.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER IV. WHAT JOHN RANCE HAD TO TELL
4  In the fields and in the streets rose the same hum of human industry.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER II. THE FLOWER OF UTAH
5  He swore in his heart that he would not fail in this if human effort and human perseverance could render him successful.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER II. THE FLOWER OF UTAH
6  The little front garden lay before the farmer's eyes bounded by the fence and gate, but neither there nor on the road was any human being to be seen.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER IV. A FLIGHT FOR LIFE
7  Year passed into year, his black hair turned grizzled, but still he wandered on, a human bloodhound, with his mind wholly set upon the one object upon which he had devoted his life.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER V. THE AVENGING ANGELS
8  Ribbons," he said, "should be considered as clothes, which are the mark of a human being.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter II
9  With the worthless parasitical human beings gone, there was more for everyone to eat.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter III
10  Whoever had thoroughly grasped it would be safe from human influences.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter III
11  The human beings could not contain their rage when they heard this song, though they pretended to think it merely ridiculous.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter IV
12  And when the human beings listened to it, they secretly trembled, hearing in it a prophecy of their future doom.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter IV
13  As the human beings approached the farm buildings, Snowball launched his first attack.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter IV
14  "I have no wish to take life, not even human life," repeated Boxer, and his eyes were full of tears.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter IV
15  It was fully realised that though the human beings had been defeated in the Battle of the Cowshed they might make another and more determined attempt to recapture the farm and reinstate Mr. Jones.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter V
Example Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
16  Freedom of expression is a basic human right.
17  They have shown a ruthless disregard for basic human rights.
18  Contact with other people is a basic human need.
19  Education is one of the basic human rights written into the United Nations Charter.
20  The delegation submitted a memorandum to the Commons on the blatant violations of basic human rights.
21  Everything ought to be beautiful in a human being: face, dress, soul and idea.
22  Everything ought to be beautiful in a human being: face, and dress, and soul, and ideas.
23  You will never have a quiet world until you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
24  Countries overwhelmed by the human tide of refugees want safe havens set up at once.
25  Our enemy has made us human and civilized by forcing us to suppress our narcissistic urges and desires for the good of all.
26  Politics is usually the executive expression of human immaturity.
27  The rock drawings depict a variety of stylized human, bird and mythological figures and patterns.
28  His vision is of a world that coheres through human connection rather than rules.
29  Knowledge is a city to the building of which every human being brought a stone.
30  Anne Frank was the girl whose diary put a human face on the Holocaust.