Example sentences for: beings

How can you use “beings” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • But that makes it sound as if most of us are entirely civil human beings, while occasionally--in some remote part of the world--a "genocide" switch gets flicked, and slaughter happens.

  • Human beings are accustomed to a certain amount of imprecision in language: not only does each of use give a slightly different interpretation to the concepts represented by words like good, justice, and God, but our speech is peppered with expressions like I mean, Y' know , and I don't get you . But in the field of learning disabilities, itself a vague, catch-all term suggestive of many interpretations, the onomasiological problem reached such a state of confusion some years ago-- as described in Chapter Two of the subject book-- that in 1964 the U.S. government commissioned a task force devoted to the terminology alone.

  • She never lectures us; she is never a scold or an "uplifter"; she never exalts some mythical Humanity over the day-to-day struggles of ordinary human beings, who are all, of course, making the same mistakes over and over again.

  • Burroughs was the George Lucas of his day, creating in Tarzan and other characters beings as profoundly mythical--and as stereotypically superficial--as Darth Vader.

  • Under current U.S. law, human beings cannot be owned and must instead be rented.


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