Example sentences for: humane

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

  • I also wondered whether a Louisiana death row would have been integrated in 1935, and whether all but one of its guards would have been so decent and humane.

  • Following World War I 's slaughter, European leaders sought to "end all war," or at least make warfare more "humane," through new international laws and organizations.

  • Prudie thinks it best we agree to disagree, and err on the side of humane considerations.

  • The United States should work with friends to develop mutually agreed-on principles for the detention and humane treatment of captured international terrorists who are not being held under a particular country's criminal laws.

  • He has called the advocates of civil society "the useful idiots of globalization" even as he has co-edited a new book-- Crimes of War: What the Public Should Know --that seems to rest its hope for a humane international order on the shoulders of transnational, extra-governmental institutions.


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