- plural of mortal.
mortals
Example Sentences
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Animation’s expressiveness can’t be captured by mortals, even one as formidable as Johnson, who so enjoys his trickster Maui that he’s played him three times in 10 years.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 9, 2026
However, Huppert emphasised the social symbolism of a vampire aristocracy that draws its power by feeding on ordinary mortals.
From Barron's ● Feb. 18, 2026
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.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 22, 2025
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 ● Nov. 27, 2025
To live is to change, to acquire the words of a story, and that is the only celebration we mortals really know.
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
