How to Use human nature in a Sentence
human nature
noun- You can't change human nature.
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And yet, while the world has changed, human nature hasn’t.
— The Editors, Town & Country, 18 Sep. 2018 -
But for the next two days, their human nature is what got them through to play again.
— Bob Ford, Philly.com, 8 May 2018 -
It’s the tale of human nature in the most dire of circumstances.
— Graham Averill, Outside Online, 24 Oct. 2022 -
The tide of sickness, distrust and fear slams up against the shoals of human nature.
— Paul Daugherty, Cincinnati.com, 20 June 2020 -
Come for the romp but stay for the study of human nature and human survival.
— Bethanne Patrick, Los Angeles Times, 15 July 2021 -
Just as the chimps taught me about chimp and human nature, these children taught me a lot.
— Rose Minutaglio, ELLE, 2 June 2022 -
But even this most epic of tales is shaped by the centripetal forces of human nature.
— Megan Garber, The Atlantic, 5 May 2021 -
Give and take, good and bad have always been part of our human nature.
— Yuen Pin Yeap, Forbes, 18 Apr. 2023 -
That might have been the best thing that could have happened to the Aztecs, at least in the human nature department.
— Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Mar. 2023 -
She has been loved and reviled and that’s human nature.
— Abbey White, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Aug. 2022 -
Rather, her work deals in human nature and the nature of emotions.
— Seth Combs, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 May 2023 -
Much has changed over 2,500 years, but not human nature.
— William Falk, The Week, 19 Nov. 2022 -
Alas, my plan to sort and cull my thousands of books — — failed to make allowance for human nature.
— Michael Dirda, Washington Post, 17 June 2020 -
There is a bright side: the resiliency of human nature.
— Sandee Lamotte, CNN, 10 Nov. 2020 -
That’s human nature to kind of question yourself and things like that.
— Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 2 June 2022 -
There is something in human nature that doesn’t always want to be in charge.
— BostonGlobe.com, 29 Apr. 2021 -
This aspect of our human nature renews my hope in a time where, for some, hope can feel hard to find.
— Natalye Paquin, NBC News, 6 May 2020 -
Or will we always be bound by the most base desires of human nature, destined to come up short of our ideals for the rest of time?
— Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 21 Mar. 2023 -
It’s only human nature to want to hear that things are going great.
— Mike Pongon, Forbes, 7 Oct. 2021 -
As Hasker sees it, the real problem here is human nature, not rogue AI.
— Bynick Rockel, Fortune, 28 June 2024 -
Part of it is human nature, and because there isn't a white straw man at the end of that, the villain is really the system.
— Joshua Rivera, GQ, 10 May 2018 -
Clever and adept at reading human nature, Cullen is ready to fight his own battles.
— Joe Otterson, Variety, 7 Mar. 2022 -
The trouble often boils down to one thing: human nature.
— Verne Kopytoff, Fortune, 1 Dec. 2021 -
Francis Lawrence: This time the story is much more about human nature.
— WIRED, 17 Nov. 2023 -
There’s something in Albee’s play that is so true to human nature.
— Stuart Miller, Orange County Register, 14 Feb. 2024 -
Our human nature cries out to pick ourselves up, clean up the wreckage and rebuild.
— Steve West, sun-sentinel.com, 4 Dec. 2020 -
And what that speaks to is, to us, that this is a very tragic comedy about human nature in a certain way.
— Beatrice Verhoeven, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 Aug. 2024 -
Perhaps that’s because Guare (who also wrote the screenplay) wasn’t aiming to recreate a scandal, but instead used a true story to inspire his imagination and poking around the nooks and crannies of human nature.
— Nina Metz, Chicago Tribune, 13 Nov. 2024 -
And human nature leads most people to wildly underestimate their risks.
— Steve Booren, The Denver Post, 17 Nov. 2024
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