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How to use mortal in a sentence

40 example sentences · adjective, noun, adverb

Mortal means susceptible to death by aging, sickness, injury, or wound; not immortal. Example: “Her wisdom was beyond that of a mere mortal.”

Examples of mortal by meaning

adjectiveHuman; belonging or pertaining to people who are mortal.

  • mortal wit or knowledge; mortal power
  • Mortal scum he could dispatch.2012, Olivia Gates, Immortal, Insatiable, Indomitable, Harlequin, →ISBN

adjectiveVery painful or tedious; wearisome.

  • a sermon lasting two mortal hours

adjectiveAn intensifier.

  • "We will do any mortal thing you like, Max, if you will allow Parkinson to administer a bromo-seltzer and then enable me to meet the officials of the Direct Insurance without a blush."1914, Ernest Bramah, Max Carrados

nounA human; someone susceptible to death.

  • Her wisdom was beyond that of a mere mortal.

adverbMortally; enough to cause death.

  • It's mortal cold out there.

More sentences with mortal

  • If humans are mortal, and Socrates is a human, then per alia Socrates is mortal.From the entry per alia
  • In Classical mythology, being stellified was about the greatest posthumous honor for a mortal.From the entry stellify
  • All men are mortal, so, by obversion, no men are immortal.From the entry obversion
  • The minor term in John Stuart Mill's famous syllogism is Socrates; the major term is mortal.From the entry minor term
  • This mortal has incurred the wrath of the skies.From the entry sky
  • Death is the destiny of all mortal men.From the entry destiny
  • The minor term of John Stuart Mill's famous syllogism—usually mistakenly credited to Aristotle—is Socrates; the major term is mortal.From the entry minor
  • The better-off tend to look upon us as lesser mortals.From the entry lesser mortal
  • The young pantheon had remanded their elders to the role of smouldering, chthonic gods; to inhabiting dark, deep places, hidden from mortal eyes and influence.From the entry chthonic
  • We see in this kingdom's early mythology that many gods behaved like mortals, vying for power and trying to outcun each other.From the entry outcun
  • I would like to understand, and then I’m perfectly fine to shuffle off my mortal coil.”2026, Sebastian Mallaby, “Introduction”, in The Infinity Machine: Demis Hassabis, DeepMind and the Quest for Superintelligence, Penguin…. From the entry croak
  • What did you turn into anyway?” “Oh, the dowdiest mortal woman.2025 May 11, Monica Padrick, “Don Tyxote” (15:59 from the start), in Krapopolis, season 2, episode 21, spoken by Deliria (Hannah Waddingham). From the entry dowdy
  • Peter's Basilica on Wednesday morning, so that the faithful may pray before his mortal remains.2025 April 21, Devin Watkins, “Pope Francis has died on Easter Monday aged 88”, in Vatican News. From the entry mortal remains
  • I've always hated comships (besides the usual ones like immortal x mortal), but I just.. block people.2023 September 12, Lumi (@oneiricstar), Twitter. From the entry comship
  • Once the soul incarnates in mortal bodies, in encounters massive impediments.2021, Andrea Nightingale, Philosophy and Religion in Plato's Dialogues, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 264. From the entry hyperdivine
  • Come, come, truly see what mortal man behold, the mother of beauty to them all bestole.2018, Edgar Beaumont, Teleportkinesis. From the entry besteal
  • My mortal parents blamed him for the way I was, for being fluid.2017, Rick Riordan, Magnus Chase and the Hammer of Thor, page 274 (the genderfluid character Alex Fierro is speaking). From the entry fluid
  • They will surely lose their minds if they're confronted with the nightmares from their mortal lives.”2012, James Lowder, Prince of Lies. From the entry spiritling
  • Selene, goddess of the moon, fell in love with Endymion, a beautiful young mortal.2010, J. Paul Getty Trust, Kenneth Lapatin, Karol Wight, editors, The J. Paul Getty Museum Handbook of the Antiquities Collection, 2nd…. From the entry Selene
  • Like my Pa, Josh willed all of his mortal remains to the embetterment of science.2010, B. J. Davis, Fictionaut: Ordinary People. From the entry embetterment
  • She could drop any mortal man dead just by her looks.2010, Alexandra Livingston, Defy the Gods, page 8. From the entry yellow-red
  • Supposedly, regular mortals have to shell out $50 for presumptuous malparkage among the elite.2010 February 8, Sean Michael Ragan, “UC Berkeley has 'Nobel Laureate Only' parking spaces”, in Make, archived from the original on 26 Jan…. From the entry malparkage
  • The fairy rade takes fairies into the land of the mortals.2009 November, Rosemary Ellen Guiley, Fairies, page 54. From the entry rade
  • In the medieval period monks were enthusiastic exhumers of the mortal remains of the holiest of individuals.2005, J. Patrick Greene, Medieval Monasteries, page 56. From the entry exhumer
  • Of course, one might say that since we are all mortal, life itself is a terminal illness!2003, Elliot N. Dorff, Love Your Neighbor and Yourself: A Jewish Approach to Modern Personal Ethics, →ISBN, page 242. From the entry terefah
  • As a former mortal who underwent apotheosis, Hercules was important to the emperors.2002, CE Newlands, Statius' Silvae and the Politics of Empire, page 176. From the entry apotheosis
  • Fame and the undying adoration and admiration of the rest of us mere mortals.1996, Wing Span, volumes 5-6, Royal Australasian Ornithologists' Union, page 37. From the entry avarous
  • The area was much too important to the prospective recoveree to be tampered with by mortal man.1996, Dick B., That Amazing Grace: The Role of Clarence and Grace S. in Alcoholics Anonymous, page 47. From the entry recoveree
  • My profession is forced entry into the minds of mortals; my speciality is Jews.1993, Ellen Galford, The Dyke and the Dybbuk, Seal Press, →ISBN, page 6. From the entry dybbuk
  • All of metaphysics is ultimately aimed at mediating between immortal PH and mortal PX.1983, Manfred Faust, Roland Harweg, Werner Lehfeldt, Götz Wienold, editors, Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Sprachtypologie und…. From the entry symphoric
  • I was catapulted without preparation into the most difficult job any mortal man can hold.1971, Lyndon Johnson, “The Beginning”, in The Vantage Point, Holt, Reinhart & Winston, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 12. From the entry an
  • Must I then for twenty-three mortal days endure the prolixity of that tedious woman?1954, W Somerset Maugham, The World Over, The Collected Stories, volume 2, London: The Reprint Society, page 1268. From the entry prolixity
  • His soul may have found rest, but “his mortal coil” certainly did not.1918, Roy Chapman Andrews, Yvette Borup Andrews, Camps and Trails in China: A Narrative of Exploration, Adventure, and Sport in…. From the entry mortal coil
  • I may be afraid of scribbleresses, but of scribblers I have a mortal dread.”1913, “Chapter XXVII. Women and Literature”, in Winifred Stephens, transl., Madeleine at Her Mirror: A Woman’s Diary, translation of…. From the entry scribbleress

Meaning of mortal

  1. adjective Susceptible to death by aging, sickness, injury, or wound; not immortal.
  2. adjective Causing death; deadly, fatal, killing, lethal (now only of wounds, injuries etc.).
  3. adjective Punishable by death.

Full definition of mortal

Questions about mortal in a sentence

How do you use mortal in a sentence?
Mortal is used as an adjective, noun and adverb. For example: “Her wisdom was beyond that of a mere mortal.”
What is a short sentence with mortal?
“It's mortal cold out there.”
What does mortal mean?
Mortal means susceptible to death by aging, sickness, injury, or wound; not immortal.

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