HUMANE in a Sentence
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420 example sentences for HUMANE, such as:
1. After all a hero is human.
2. But humane Starbuck was too late.
3. The essence of language is human activity.
4. Master, however, was not a humane slaveholder.
5. The human brain is the centre of higher nervous activity.
2. But humane Starbuck was too late.
3. The essence of language is human activity.
4. Master, however, was not a humane slaveholder.
5. The human brain is the centre of higher nervous activity.
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Meanings and Examples of HUMANE
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humane
a. marked or motivated by concern with the alleviation of suffering
a. showing evidence of moral and intellectual advancement
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1 But humane Starbuck was too late.
2 I am horror-struck at this antemosaic, unsourced existence of the unspeakable terrors of the whale, which, having been before all time, must needs exist after all humane ages are over.
3 But most humble though he was, and far from furnishing an example of the high, humane abstraction; the Pequod's carpenter was no duplicate; hence, he now comes in person on this stage.
4 He is severe to the idle and wicked, but to the sober and deserving he is a leader, both just and humane.
5 Master, however, was not a humane slaveholder.
6 I indulged a faint hope that his conversion would lead him to emancipate his slaves, and that, if he did not do this, it would, at any rate, make him more kind and humane.
7 It neither made him to be humane to his slaves, nor to emancipate them.
8 I was relieved from it by the humane hand of Mr. David Ruggles, whose vigilance, kindness, and perseverance, I shall never forget.
9 Perhaps you laugh too, dear reader; but you know humanity comes out in a variety of strange forms now-a-days, and there is no end to the odd things that humane people will say and do.
10 A very humane jurist once said, The worst use you can put a man to is to hang him.
11 The trader, who, considering his advantages, was almost as humane as some of our politicians, seemed to feel called on to administer such consolation as the case admitted of.
12 We had a very pious and humane Iman, who preached an excellent sermon, exhorting them not to kill us all at once.
13 The mountain, the sea, the forest, make savage men; they develop the fierce side, but often without destroying the humane side.
14 Enjolras was the more virile, Combeferre the more humane.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 4: CHAPTER I—A GROUP WHICH BARELY MISSED BECOMING HISTORIC
Context Highlight In BOOK 4: CHAPTER I—A GROUP WHICH BARELY MISSED BECOMING HISTORIC
15 To terminate this duel, to amalgamate the pure idea with the humane reality, to cause right to penetrate pacifically into the fact and the fact into right, that is the task of sages.
Example Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1 These regulations ensure the humane treatment of all refugees.
2 In the mid-nineteenth century, Dorothea Dix began to campaign for humane treatment of the mentally ill.
3 Campaigners claim that the animals are not being kept in humane conditions.
4 Those who want to take child abuse seriously today must stake out a humane child protection practice.
5 Mr Kore-Eda is one of world cinema's most humane and skilful storytellers, and "Shoplifters" is another of his low-key, acutely observed, ultimately devastating studies of contemporary Japanese life.
6 He was, of course, both humane and probably even saintly, but like another giant of history, he was also a shrewd and smoothly manipulative politician with a keen strategic grasp of pragmatic possibilities.
7 What launched your interest in humane treatment of livestock in the first place?
8 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.
9 The essence of language is human activity.
10 The human brain is the centre of higher nervous activity.
11 The administration has delinked human rights from economic aid to under developed nations.
12 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.
13 After all a hero is human.
14 He was an agent, not of the capitalist West, but of the spirit of human freedom.
15 Rawls's representative agent is portrayed as a disembodied party devoid of any substantive human characteristics except rationality.