How to Use inhuman in a Sentence

inhuman

adjective
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  • He let out an inhuman moan.
  • She had an almost inhuman desire to succeed.
  • And that inhuman wail, that was truly the sound of her voice?
    — Jordan Crucchiola, Vulture, 7 Aug. 2023
  • The film gives the ants a chance to boast about their inhuman coördination.
    — Matthew Hutson, The New Yorker, 22 Jan. 2023
  • And that comes not just from tools that can sift through the inhuman volume of alerts and distractions.
    — Forbes, 3 Jan. 2022
  • Levi drops in a deep inhuman sound, like the roar of a satanic bellows.
    — Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Jan. 2024
  • But the sight of Lenny’s horrible, inhuman face lifting into a snarl did the job.
    — Wesley Snipes, The Root, 27 May 2018
  • That unified force was a God too massive, too inhuman, to resist with the atheism in which I had been brought up.
    — Jia Tolentino, The New Yorker, 29 Apr. 2017
  • These Covid rules are a mess, inhuman and contain no fairness.
    — Washington Post, 19 Apr. 2021
  • The Force flows through both of them, allowing their bodies to jump and flip at inhuman angles.
    — Lauren Morgan, EW.com, 19 Dec. 2019
  • The wind was making a low, inhuman muttering in the pines, and, inspired, the animals let loose in call-and-response.
    — Lauren Groff, The New Yorker, 23 May 2016
  • Asking the players to bench press the rule book would be cruel and inhuman punishment.
    — Barry Wilner, Star Tribune, 8 Oct. 2020
  • To beat the Bills would demand inhuman precision, and Reich knew it.
    — New York Times, 9 Jan. 2021
  • Horror comedy Black Friday covers the biggest sale of the year, but this time the shoppers are inhuman and out for blood.
    — Alex Ritman, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Feb. 2022
  • Just as there has been a backlash against overt politics among players, there is a backlash against what are seen as the more inhuman aspects of the game.
    — Schuyler Velasco, The Christian Science Monitor, 7 Sep. 2017
  • What kept him on this list was his inhuman size and strength, combined with his mobility.
    — Michael Haag, Dallas News, 15 Aug. 2023
  • In an effort to win a huge cash prize, the people competed in the inhuman Squid Game, a play on children's games with violent ends.
    — Kelly Wynne, PEOPLE.com, 27 Feb. 2022
  • The Mughal authority took it as a disgrace and ordered the Guru to be tortured in the most inhuman manner.
    — Sondeep Sankar, Quartz India, 3 Sep. 2019
  • For the sake of NFL fans, let’s hope that’s the worst game of the postseason because forcing anyone to watch another one like this would be cruel and inhuman.
    — Sal Maiorana, USA TODAY, 7 Jan. 2018
  • However, no one would go back to work after a few more sightings of something inhuman emerged.
    — Laura Beck, Cosmopolitan, 31 Oct. 2015
  • Even the sweetest of characters have done something, generally because of their creative life, that to the rest of the world is inhuman.
    — Patricia Highsmith, The New Yorker, 27 Sep. 2021
  • That same cold and inhuman world of computers could also make Thompson feel isolated and prompt her to act out.
    — Maya Miller, Anchorage Daily News, 19 June 2022
  • The CIA torture program was both inhuman and an abject failure.
    — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 29 Mar. 2016
  • Because of this, politics is, in a very real sense, inhuman.
    — Cameron Hilditch, National Review, 18 Dec. 2020
  • Freeways cut up the neighborhood, which in 1961 became home to the inhuman concrete tangle known as the East L.A. Interchange.
    — Alexander Nazaryan, Newsweek, 21 May 2017
  • The game’s graphics were criticized for looking inhuman and primitive, when the hair physics weren’t glitching like crazy.
    — K. Thor Jensen, PCMAG, 10 Mar. 2022
  • The players are the townspeople trying to push back against various inhuman threats, like sentient plants or space aliens.
    — Rachel Rothman, Good Housekeeping, 18 Nov. 2022
  • Free Chol Soo Lee is, at its core, a sensitive portrait of a man brutalized by an inhuman system.
    — Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 Jan. 2022
  • While giving the prayer, Francis condemned an attack at a concert hall near Moscow resulting in the deaths of more than 130 people, calling the massacre a vile and inhuman act that offends God.
    — Greg Wehner, Fox News, 25 Mar. 2024
  • The title creatures, which are summoned to overthrow warlords in feudal Japan, are just inhuman enough to distinguish themselves.
    — James Grebey, Vulture, 28 Mar. 2024

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