HUMAN in a Sentence

Learn HUMAN from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
420 example sentences for HUMAN, such as:
1. After all a hero is human.
2. The essence of language is human activity.
3. Her boss did not display any human traits.
4. The human brain is the centre of higher nervous activity.
5. Art and music are among the great products of human civilization.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of HUMAN
human
 a.  having human form or attributes as opposed to those of animals or divine beings
 a.  relating to a person
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)
1  The human species, according to the best theory I can form of it, is composed of two distinct races, the man who borrows, and the man who lends.
2  The essence of language is human activity.
3  The human brain is the centre of higher nervous activity.
4  The administration has delinked human rights from economic aid to under developed nations.
5  I have often thought it would be a blessing if each human being were stricken blind and deaf for a few days at some time during his early adult life.
6  After all a hero is human.
7  He was an agent, not of the capitalist West, but of the spirit of human freedom.
8  Rawls's representative agent is portrayed as a disembodied party devoid of any substantive human characteristics except rationality.
9  Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.
10  Her boss did not display any human traits.
11  Some foreign governments appear happy to gloss over continued human rights abuses.
12  Art and music are among the great products of human civilization.
13  Of earthly goods the best is a good wifeA bad the bitterest curse of human life.
14  Research on athletes and ordinary human subjects has yielded a mixed bag of results.
15  The human body has a symmetry that is basic to our sense of beauty.