Example sentences for: mortal

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

  • However, since Socrates was mortal, he must have died by now, so he is no longer alive and thus is no longer a man.

  • To put someone on oath, and then ask if he has masturbated or committed adultery (both mortal sins according to traditional Christian ethics), is merely to "give occasion of horrid perjuries."

  • I dream'd this mortal part of mineWas Metamorphoz'd to a Vine;Which crawling one and every wayEnthralled my dainty Lucia .Me thought, her long small legs & thighsI with my Tendrils did surprize;Her Belly, Buttocks, and her WasteBy my soft Nerv'lits were embrac'd :About her head I writhing hung,And with rich clusters (hid amongThe leaves) her temples I behung:So that my Lucia seem'd to meYoung Bacchus ravisht by his tree.My curles about her neck did craule,And armes and hands they did enthrall;So that she could not freely stir,(All parts there made one prisoner.)

  • However, since the men are mortal, the proportion of Seville that comprises them will gradually decrease, leading to here ventual recovery, just in time to die from other causes.

  • On the other hand, we are all mortal."


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