Example sentences for: personhood

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

  • Although the concept is not mentioned in the Constitution, the freedom to say “yes” or “no” to particular commercial relationships has become an essential dimension of personhood.

  • They may eventually cease to be who they were, instead becoming a unitary “person with an illness” or—more damning—an “ill person,” a thing in which personhood and illness have completely fused.

  • Freedom of contract enables individuals to express their personhood, but it also facilitates relationships of oppression, including “slavery and involuntary servitude.”

  • Whereas Jane Roe and John Doe at least give a nod to status based on the fact of mere personhood, the new terminology seems to confer status on the basis of some salient generic attribute--consider "occupant," "head of household," "user," "the consumer."

  • In addition to Ripley coping with her personhood/alienhood, you have a setup out of The Poseidon Adventure , with a bunch of people trying to push their way through the watery space station to reach their little ship, with one after another getting gobbled down by aliens at regular intervals.


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