Example sentences for: mortals

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

  • But the men and women who run the Fed, and even those who run the German Bundesbank, are mere mortals, who may yet succumb to the temptations of the printing press.

  • The protagonist, Roy (Ben Stiller), calls himself Mr. Furious because his anger supposedly gives him powers undreamt of by mere mortals.

  • Its boudoir is an entire forest, symbolizing Nature itself, where mortals and fairies, regals and bumpkins, make love and war, where passion becomes arbitrary and paramours interchangeable; and its last act is a riotously bungled tragedy-within-a-comedy (a celebratory performance by a troupe of "rude mechanicals") that's an ironic comment on the trivial pursuits that have preceded it.

  • One clear lesson from the Greeks is that mortals pay a heavy price for being desired by a god.

  • The mortals fare better.


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