How to Use humanity in a Sentence

humanity

noun
  • She was cut off from the rest of humanity.
  • He's taking courses in both the sciences and the humanities.
  • We appealed to his sense of humanity.
  • These discoveries will be of benefit to all humanity.
  • The amulet lying at the center of the plot brings all of that humanity, good, bad, and in between, to the forefront.
    David James, Anchorage Daily News, 4 June 2023
  • This is against all rules, against all rules of humanity, against all rules of war, against all rules of peace.
    Bill Hutchinson, ABC News, 10 Oct. 2023
  • All these two shared was a love for humanity, a love for each other, and, of course, a love for Bon Jovi.
    Ew Staff, EW.com, 3 July 2024
  • Learn to balance your sense of self with your sense of humanity this month.
    Meghan Rose, Glamour, 1 Mar. 2024
  • Learn to balance your sense of self with your sense of humanity this month.
    Meghan Rose, Glamour, 1 Aug. 2024
  • Learn to balance your sense of self with your sense of humanity this month.
    Meghan Rose, Glamour, 1 Oct. 2024
  • Being sick has slowed me down enough to catch glimpses of my humanity and what the future may hold.
    Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 27 July 2024
  • Elon Musk and tech leaders called for AI ‘Pause’ over risks to humanity.
    Alex Wood, Forbes, 1 Apr. 2023
  • Taylor Swift’s songs have conjured Swifties out of the mass of humanity.
    Joshua Rothman, The New Yorker, 13 Aug. 2024
  • In the painting, the artist contends with the scope of humanity’s relationship with, and impact on, the sea.
    Cate McQuaid, BostonGlobe.com, 30 Aug. 2023
  • But when plans go awry, her only hope of saving the future of humanity from AI is to trust it.
    Kimberlee Speakman, Peoplemag, 21 May 2024
  • McDowell sees a few ways to frame the story thus far of humanity in space.
    Jaime Green, New York Times, 5 Nov. 2023
  • But that doesn’t mean there haven’t been some tense, chaotic, and even some flashing touches of humanity in the process.
    Emily Hallas, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 18 Aug. 2024
  • That’s a question the humanities equip a student to ask and explore.
    Nicole Laporte, Town & Country, 2 May 2023
  • Want to know more about humanity’s next giant leap in space?
    Passant Rabie / Gizmodo, Quartz, 2 May 2024
  • That’s when all the shoving starts, with Hurts almost inevitably emerging from the mass of humanity with a first down.
    Chuck Schilken, Los Angeles Times, 23 Oct. 2023
  • For Eliot’s gaze is fixed not on the heavens above but on the specimens of humanity before her.
    Anna Mundow, WSJ, 18 Aug. 2023
  • This places focus on the things of morality more so than the things of basic humanity.
    Charlotte Observer, 8 Feb. 2024
  • When Africa was recognized as the site of humanity’s origin, this came at a cost.
    Stefanos Geroulanos, Twin Cities, 10 Apr. 2024
  • The arts and humanities took a big hit during the pandemic.
    Diane Bell, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Apr. 2023
  • This time, the sarcasm was all but gone, leaving only the humanity.
    Mary McNamara, Los Angeles Times, 29 Oct. 2023
  • Not everyone is ready yet to get back into the tangle of humanity at the grocery store.
    oregonlive, 20 June 2023
  • Yi was successful and saved humanity, and to thank the hero, the moon gods gave the archer two elixirs granting him everlasting life.
    Michelle Tchea, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 Sep. 2024
  • In many ways, Beaver said, the moment represented the best of humanity.
    Frank Witsil, Detroit Free Press, 24 June 2023
  • But rather than viewing the end of mankind as the end of the world, Shelley examines the extinction of humanity on an Earth that keeps on living.
    Ilana Masad, The Atlantic, 26 Apr. 2024
  • To study only someone’s success or failure is to deny them the fullness of their humanity.
    Rodger Dean Duncan, Forbes, 1 Oct. 2024

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