human being

Example Sentences

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“You would think that a human being with a shred of dignity would recoil from this thing,” Oswalt said.

From Salon • Jun. 8, 2026

"They just chased us away like dogs... that is unfair because, actually, I'm a human being," the 32-year-old said.

From Barron's • Jun. 3, 2026

The transformations they are engineering will touch every human being; the decisions about how to engineer them will be made by very few.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 29, 2026

But the person who came up with that ad campaign or approved it, somewhere along the line, there was a human being behind that.

From Los Angeles Times • May 21, 2026

But I was a human being, and had a human being’s wants: I must not linger where there was nothing to supply them.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë