Example sentences for: mankind

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

  • Such brief windows of rationality did not last long, but they gave mankind a much-needed break.

  • His new novel, Toward the End of Time , takes place in a futuristic Massachusetts in which nuclear war has leveled half of civilization, strange new metallic animals are threatening to gobble mankind, government has collapsed, and a gangsterish network of uniformed thugs called (chillingly) FedEx is establishing a government network of its own.

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

  • In Alien Resurrection , we meet a set of conceited, sadistic scientists--the kind of dangerously hubristic Prometheans who are convinced that they can harness the aliens for the good of mankind.

  • Mankind is not special by virtue of our address in the universe, or what spins around us, or because life originated here.


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