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How to use humane in a sentence

22 example sentences · adjective

Humane means having or showing concern for the pain or suffering of another; compassionate. Example: “It is no longer considered humane to perform vivisection on research animals.”

Examples of humane by meaning

adjectiveHaving or showing concern for the pain or suffering of another; compassionate.

  • It is no longer considered humane to perform vivisection on research animals.
  • As methods of execution go, beheading is more humane than drawing and quartering.

More sentences with humane

  • I care lots about the humane treatment of animals.From the entry lots
  • I've been giving it a lot of thought lately, and I've decided to stop buying eggs that fail to earn the "certified humane" label.From the entry give thought
  • The extra drop meant the victim's neck snapped, causing a more humane death.2022 November 30, John Gardiner, A Hitchhiker's Triptych. From the entry dance
  • Proponents argue that TNR prevents rampant breeding, and is more humane than euthanasia.2016 November 13, Britt Peterson, “The Case Against Cats”, in The Atlantic, archived from the original on 17 Nov 2016. From the entry TNR
  • Social Darwinism, with its racism, classism, and anticharity attitudes, is a major threat to humane policy today.2011, Rachel M. MacNair, The Psychology of Peace, page 123. From the entry anticharity
  • Protesters who demand that this brilliantly humane enterprise be stopped should have their motives questioned.2000 August 21, “letter”, in Time. From the entry hand waving
  • He is a mere social excrescence, tolerated because we live in a humane age, but essentially despicable.1933 January 9, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter XXXI, in Down and Out in Paris and London, London: Victor Gollancz…. From the entry excrescence
  • Ibn Rushd tried to reconcile reason and humane morality with God and faith, positing a kindly God and an unfanatic faith.2015 September 4, Ursula K Le Guin, “Two Years, Eight Months and Twenty‑Eight Nights by Salman Rushdie review – a modern Arabian Nights”…. From the entry unfanatic
  • We humane people have upset the balance of nature badly.1997 September 22, Arlene McKinnell, “Bring deer population back into balance”, in David Hall, editor, The Plain Dealer, Cleveland, Oh.…. From the entry Bambi-lover
  • The Boomers had been the ones who'd ushered in an era of inclusiveness, diversity, and Aquarian dreams for a more humane society.2017, David Friend, The Naughty Nineties, Twelve Books. From the entry aquarian
  • Humane Society International is targeting Chinese restaurants and diners in major cities across North America this week with its campaign against shark finning.2009 January 29, Camille Bains, “Save sharks, skip soup, Year of Ox diners urged”, in Toronto Star. From the entry finning
  • There was a halo about everything that Uncle John did, the radiance that goes with great kindness, the jovial gentle-heartedness of a humane man.2008, Albert Bigelow Paine, A Short Life of Mark Twain, →ISBN, page 7. From the entry gentle-heartedness
  • If the men in the Fire Service were not humane, more than anything else, they would not be in so risky an occupation.1972, Cumbria, volume 22, numbers 1-9, page 517. From the entry triggerish
  • The batrachomyomachian cure for the superhuman ego is to chop it off at the knees and cut it down to a human, preferably humane, level.1971, Edwin Harrison Cady, The Light of Common Day: Realism in American Fiction. From the entry batrachomyomachian
  • At Site-43, where the community is close-knit, the staffbase relatively humane, and a well-trafficked hallway is set aside for portraits of past local notables, the problem is somewhat attenuated.2022 September 24, HarryBlank, “Transition”, in SCP Foundation, archived from the original on 05 Oct 2024. From the entry stratospherically
  • Melville seems to raise the question, What might America have become if the European encounter with the wilderness had been directed by truly humane, universal values?2004, Joyce A. Rowe, “Herman Melville's Moby-Dick”, in Jay Parini, editor, The Oxford Encyclopedia of American Literature, Oxford…. From the entry Queequeg
  • One of these, Howard Williams' The Ethics of Diet, was a 'biographical history of the literature of humane dietetics from the earliest period to the present day'.1925-29, Mahadev Desai (translator), M.K. Gandhi, The Story of My Experiments with Truth, Part I, chapter xv. From the entry vegetarian
  • The Berlin rulers did indeed make a serious attempt to conciliate local opinion by sending down for once a really humane and enlightened governor, Baron von Manteuffel.1919 May, William Stearns Davis, “The Roots of War”, in Century, pages 110–23. From the entry condescension
  • “We are part of the fibershed movement, proud of making beautiful, useful items, in a sustainable, humane manner, with a low carbon footprint,” said Adkins, 63, a retired environmental ecologist.2015 April 16, Ann Carranza, “Baby Stella is the first lamb of her kind”, in Santa Rosa Press Democrat. From the entry fibershed
  • Orthotanasia refers to the art of promoting a humane and correct death, not subjecting patients to misthanasia or dysthanasia and not abbreviating death either, that is, subjecting them to euthanasia.2009 September/October, Chaiane Amorim Biondo, Maria Júlia Paes da Silva, Lígia Maria Dal Secco, “Dysthanasia, Euthanasia, Orthotanasia…. From the entry misthanasia

Meaning of humane

  1. adjective Having or showing concern for the pain or suffering of another; compassionate.
  2. adjective Pertaining to branches of learning concerned with human affairs or the humanities, especially classical literature or rhetoric.

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Questions about humane in a sentence

How do you use humane in a sentence?
Humane is used as an adjective. For example: “It is no longer considered humane to perform vivisection on research animals.”
What is a short sentence with humane?
“I care lots about the humane treatment of animals.”
What does humane mean?
Humane means having or showing concern for the pain or suffering of another; compassionate.

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