MORTAL in a Sentence

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"An Indian is a mortal to be felt afore he is seen," returned the scout, ascending the rock, and throwing the deer carelessly down.

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 Meanings and Examples of MORTAL
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
mortal
 n.  man, human being; liable or subject to death; accompanying death
Classic Sentence: (141 in 10 pages)
1  After the mortal silence of his long imprisonment Zeena's volubility was music in his ears.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IV
2  Once she would have thought this omission a mortal sin but, somehow, staying away from church did not seem so sinful now as it formerly had.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIX
3  She knew that fornication was a mortal sin.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXII
4  The mortal maid on the shore is helpless against the siren who loves her prey: such victims are floated back dead from their adventure.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 14
5  It was the first time she had ever come across the results of her spasmodic benevolence, and the surprised sense of human fellowship took the mortal chill from her heart.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 13
6  Be sure of this, O young ambition, all mortal greatness is but disease.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 16. The Ship.
7  Nor, will the tragic dramatist who would depict mortal indomitableness in its fullest sweep and direct swing, ever forget a hint, incidentally so important in his art, as the one now alluded to.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 33. The Specksnyder.
8  With a shout, they took a mortal start forwards, and slantingly ranged up on the German's quarter.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 81. The Pequod Meets The Virgin.
9  Would now the wind but had a body; but all the things that most exasperate and outrage mortal man, all these things are bodiless, but only bodiless as objects, not as agents.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 135. The Chase.—Third Day.
10  With its own penetrating vision the spirit seeks some one mortal worthy to hold him company, worthy of being exalted for a few hours into realms of the semi-celestials.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In X
11  "An Indian is a mortal to be felt afore he is seen," returned the scout, ascending the rock, and throwing the deer carelessly down.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 5
12  I am no mortal, if the risky devils haven't swam down upon the very pitch, and, as bad luck would have it, they have hit the head of the island.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 7
13  She is kind, gentle, sweet, good, as mortal may be.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 30
14  Quashy shall do my will, and not his, all the days of his mortal life, and have such chance of getting to heaven, at last, as I find convenient.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIX
15  His love enfolded her childish heart with more than mortal tenderness; and it was to Him, she said, she was going, and to his home.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
Example Sentence: (18 in 2 pages)
1  Nothing betrays the fact that he is now engaged in a mortal fight.
2  In Shakespeare's The Tempest, the spirit Ariel is an ethereal creature, too airy and unearthly for our mortal world.
3  Her reputation suffered a mortal blow as a result of the scandal.
4  She dines in the executive suite, while we lesser mortals use the staff cafeteria.
5  Miracles can be worked by Him alone, although mere mortals may entreat Him by prayer to perform them on their behalf.
6  They're so grand these days that they probably don't talk to ordinary mortals like us any more.
7  Here I walked about for a long time, feeling very strange, and mortally apprehensive of some one coming in and kidnapping me.
8  The mortally wounded soldier lingered on for a few days until at last he died.
9  We aren't gods: we must accept our mortality.
10  The study also demonstrated a direct link between obesity and mortality.
11  Infant mortality was extremely high and the upper classes were not exempt.
12  Infant mortality has been dramatically reduced because of modern medicine.
13  The nation's infant mortality rate has reached a record low.
14  For Africa � right at the bottom of virtually every table - reducing infant mortality by two thirds and getting all its children into school look like an impossible dream until well into the twenty-second century.
15  Hospitals succeeded in lowering the mortality rate as soon as they introduced aseptic conditions.