INHUMAN in a Sentence

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I was some little way off, so that I could not make out the features, but there was something unnatural and inhuman about the face.

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 Meanings and Examples of INHUMAN
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
inhuman
 a.  not human; not governed by feelings proper to human nature; specifically, not humane; hard-hearted; unfeeling; cruel
Classic Sentence: (22 in 2 pages)
1  the bruise of the false inhuman war.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 5
2  They had perhaps some of the weird, inhuman beauty of minerals, the lustre of coal, the weight and blueness and resistance of iron, the transparency of glass.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 11
3  And Connie pulled on the disguise, then the long motoring coat, and she sat down, a goggling inhuman, unrecognizable creature.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 16
4  It was as if his very passivity and prostitution to the Magna Mater gave him insight into material business affairs, and lent him a certain remarkable inhuman force.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 19
5  In business he was quite inhuman.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 19
6  I was some little way off, so that I could not make out the features, but there was something unnatural and inhuman about the face.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In III. The Adventure of The Yellow Face
7  She only knew she had left her tired body and floated somewhere above it where there was no pain and weariness and her brain saw things with an inhuman clarity.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
8  "It was simply inhuman of Pragg to go off now," Mrs. Trenor declared, as her friend seated herself at the desk.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 4
9  The editorial in question was prompted by the many inhuman and fiendish lynchings of Afro-Americans which have recently taken place and was meant as a warning.
Southern Horrors By Ida B. Wells-Barnett
Context  Highlight   In II
10  Of the many inhuman outrages of this present year, the only case where the proposed lynching did not occur, was where the men armed themselves in Jacksonville, Fla.
Southern Horrors By Ida B. Wells-Barnett
Context  Highlight   In VII
11  From the top of a small hill came level belchings of yellow flame that caused an inhuman whistling in the air.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 19
12  We sailed hence, always in much distress, till we came to the land of the lawless and inhuman Cyclopes.
The Odyssey By Homer
Context  Highlight   In BOOK IX
13  Its alternation of sad human ineffectiveness with vast inhuman cycles of activity chilled him and he forgot his own human and ineffectual grieving.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 2
14  The holidays are part and parcel of the gross fraud, wrong, and inhumanity of slavery.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick Douglass
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
15  I have said that this mode of treatment is a part of the whole system of fraud and inhumanity of slavery.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick Douglass
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
Example Sentence:
1  We regard their treatment of the prisoners as inhuman.
2  Prisoners of war were subjected to inhuman and degrading treatment.
3  Capital punishment was regarded as inhuman and immoral.
4  How simple that concept seems now, but how inhuman, how futuristic, how absurd it sounded to me then.
5  In short, what was it like to be human in inhuman circumstances?
6  Millions of turkeys are raised in inhumane, industrial settings.
7  The new weapon was too inhumane to be used.