Example sentences for: mankind

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

  • And so, by 600,000 b.c., about 50 km (31 miles) southwest of present-day Beijing, the ancestors of mankind were ready to settle down.

  • A cave near the town of Zhoukoudian held the skull of a small-brained but upright ancestor of mankind who lived half a million years ago.

  • I leant upon a coppice gate When Frost was spectre-gray,And Winter's dregs made desolate The weakening eye of day.The tangled bine-stems scored the sky Like strings of broken lyres, And all mankind that haunted nighHad sought their household fires.

  • Right there, says Fish, Locke undoes his own argument, since "the judgment of all mankind" requires a reigning consensus that doesn't exist.

  • Die Welt led on Mikhail Gorbachev calling it "a happy day for all mankind."


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