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How to use humanly in a sentence

14 example sentences · adverb, adjective

Humanly means in a human manner. Example: “We'll do anything humanly possible to avoid the ticket.”

Examples of humanly by meaning

adjectiveOf or pertaining to humans; human.

  • In the present book Vura-Sereto plays a principal rôle as the Source of Life depicted as a very beautiful woman but devoid of humanly emotions.1966, Credo Vusa’mazulu Mutwa, Africa Is My Witness, Blue Crane Books
  • “Ouch!” exclaims Adam, expressing humanly emotion for the first time.2007, Ronald Pursel, Fear . . . What Is It Good For?, Xulon Press, →ISBN, page 27
  • However, when we examine the biological behavior of our humanly bodies, we experience a point within the cycle of each day where the body must take rest.2011, Lincoln E. Barnett, “Love Ethics: Will You Love?”, in Lee Huckleberry, editor, Waking to the Holy: Sermons from the 2011 National...

More sentences with humanly

  • We'll do anything humanly possible to avoid the ticket.From the entry humanly possible
  • Lillian was therefore determined to keep dancing for as long as humanly possible.2022 September 22, HarryBlank, “Mind Over Matter”, in SCP Foundation, archived from the original on 23 May 2024. From the entry foofaraw
  • And who was it that gave you to our humanly challenged parents?”2012, E R Byrt, The Alien Within: A Hero for Humanity, Strategic Book Publishing, →ISBN, page 281. From the entry humanly challenged
  • The right system should make as few mistakes as humanly or machinely possible.1968, Leo Breiman, Probability, page 197. From the entry machinely
  • Angle shooters don't break the rules-they just make it their personal mission to bend them as much as humanly possible.2009 May 31, Barbara Connors, “Angle-Shooting: Dishonorable Discharge”, in PokerPlayer. From the entry angle shooting
  • Hope is what makes patience humanly possible.1993, Harry John Huebner, David Schroeder, Church as parable: whatever happened to ethics?. From the entry unjoy
  • It seems humanly reasonable that the three of us can woman-handle a mere man of your elderly and insulting avoirdupois.1915, Jack London, The Little Lady of the Big House. From the entry avoirdupois
  • Surely it is in the public interest for these crackers to be made with as much cheddary goodness as is humanly possible.2024 January 11, “New ‘Extra Cheesy’ Cheez-Its A Tacit Acknowledgement That Company Could Have Been Making Snack Cheesier All Along”, in…. From the entry cheddary
  • My view is that what we call feelings, things, sensations, values, moral directives, etc. are intimately linguistic but arc so only so far as they are humanly lifeful.1973, Lee Thayer, Communication: Ethical and Moral Issues, page 307. From the entry lifeful
  • Mariettans opened their hearts and homes to them and did everything humanly possible to make them comfortable and set the stage ashore for a successful regatta.1951 July 24, Allison Danzig, “Sports of The Times: Not So Charming Now”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times…. From the entry Mariettan
  • Inasmuch as I answered you in as much detail as is humanly possible, and you elided all of the answer, it would appear you are just resorting to kookdom now.2000 April 4, Dave Cunningham, “Re: Children at risk on CompuServe forums ?”, in alt.online-service.compuserve (Usenet). From the entry kookdom

Meaning of humanly

  1. adverb In a human manner.
  2. adjective Of or pertaining to humans; human.

Full definition of humanly

Questions about humanly in a sentence

How do you use humanly in a sentence?
Humanly is used as an adverb and adjective. For example: “We'll do anything humanly possible to avoid the ticket.”
What is a short sentence with humanly?
“Hope is what makes patience humanly possible.”
What does humanly mean?
Humanly means in a human manner.

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