INHUMANE 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 INHUMANE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
inhumane
 a.  lacking pity or compassion; cruel and savage
Classic Sentence: (22 in 2 pages)
1  It would have been inhumane to make fun of that.
The Trial By Franz Kafka
Context  Highlight   In Chapter One Arrest - Conversation with Mrs. Grubach - The...
2  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
3  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
4  I bent myself to devising ways and means for our escape, and meanwhile strove, on all fitting occasions, to impress them with the gross fraud and inhumanity of slavery.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick Douglass
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
5  In both these instances the same causes were at work, although the inhumanity and the wrong inflicted were less in the case of the commonwealth than of the prince.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER LIX.
6  Nevertheless, his barbarous cruelty and inhumanity with infinite wickedness do not permit him to be celebrated among the most excellent men.
The Prince By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII — CONCERNING THOSE WHO HAVE OBTAINED A PRINC...
7  Inquiries were made as to how it got there; I was obliged to confess, and in recompense for my cowardice and inhumanity was sent out of the house.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
8  It was a dreadful picture of ingratitude and inhumanity; and Anne felt, at some moments, that no flagrant open crime could have been worse.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 21
9  the bruise of the false inhuman war.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 5
10  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
11  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
12  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
13  In business he was quite inhuman.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 19
14  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
15  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
Example Sentence:
1  Millions of turkeys are raised in inhumane, industrial settings.
2  The new weapon was too inhumane to be used.
3  We regard their treatment of the prisoners as inhuman.
4  Prisoners of war were subjected to inhuman and degrading treatment.
5  Capital punishment was regarded as inhuman and immoral.
6  How simple that concept seems now, but how inhuman, how futuristic, how absurd it sounded to me then.
7  In short, what was it like to be human in inhuman circumstances?