mortal
Example Sentences
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Many observers have professed confusion over how Good, an unarmed person, can somehow be seen as a mortal threat.
From Salon
College football once leaned on bots, but it decided last decade to reintroduce the human element, which has only shown that mortals can make baffling, terrible decisions, too.
Villagers in Bahraich say they now live in mortal fear of the wolves lurking near their homes.
From Barron's
There’s a wicked irony in micromanaging your entire life on Earth only to croak and have your soul potentially jettisoned to some formless state of being, entirely unknown to mere mortals.
From Salon
That may have been the moment when he realised these MPs had not come equipped for mortal combat.
From BBC
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
