How to Use humankind in a Sentence

humankind

noun
  • The First Star announces that all humankind was born out of the womb of Africa.
    Essence, 11 Aug. 2022
  • That’s the movie where the apes rise up and overthrow the fascistic humankind.
    Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 7 Oct. 2021
  • The final bite of a cake cone is one of the single best bites of food in all of humankind.
    Lucas Kwan Peterson, Los Angeles Times, 14 Sep. 2023
  • The year is 2041 and the next step in the future of humankind is imminent.
    Manori Ravindran, Variety, 29 Apr. 2022
  • And humankind chose to put their own ambition above what the rule was.
    David Remnick, The New Yorker, 1 Apr. 2023
  • So, too, with the Jewish People, with all of humankind.
    Rabbi Avi Weiss, Sun Sentinel, 19 Dec. 2022
  • The rover could be in the right place to answer some of humankind's deepest questions.
    NBC News, 13 Oct. 2021
  • If this is the last invention of humankind, then all bets are off.
    WIRED, 13 June 2023
  • Is it meant for all humankind or for only a sliver of us?
    The New Yorker, 24 Nov. 2023
  • This time, Neo isn’t a Christ figure who will save humankind.
    NBC News, 18 Dec. 2021
  • If the robot overlords churn out a lot of these, humankind will be too blissed out to fight back.
    Connie Ogle, orlandosentinel.com, 21 Feb. 2022
  • Climate change is akin to all of humankind sitting in a big car with the sun bearing down.
    Emily Dreibelbis, PCMAG, 26 Sep. 2022
  • So this is a taste of the normal of the future unless we, humankind, get to work and address it.
    ABC News, 23 June 2024
  • The story of humankind’s journey to the moon can’t be captured in a single frame.
    USA Today, 22 June 2021
  • Don’t look a gift horse in the mouth is one of the oldest proverbs known to humankind, whinnying back at least 1,500 years.
    Richard Lederer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 May 2024
  • The show is set hundreds of years after humankind has lost the ability to see.
    Shafiq Najib, Peoplemag, 24 Aug. 2022
  • But that has never stopped humankind from looking to the future with hope.
    Matthew J. Palm, Orlando Sentinel, 14 Dec. 2022
  • Toward the end of his life, Mr. Leakey dreamed of building a museum of humankind, to be called Ngaren.
    New York Times, 3 Jan. 2022
  • While poking fun at our species, Morris was also one of the first to denounce the blank slate view of humankind.
    New York Times, 31 Mar. 2022
  • To help keep humankind safe from evil, the Eternals re-join together to fight the Deviants.
    Greta Bjornson, PEOPLE.com, 3 Nov. 2021
  • The story takes place in the 26th century in the midst of a war between humankind and an alien collective known as the Covenant.
    Nick Romano, EW.com, 30 Jan. 2022
  • He’s filled our lives with some of the greatest art ever produced by humankind.
    Diego Ramos Bechara, Variety, 18 Jan. 2024
  • Unlike humankind, God always keeps his word and avoids lies at all costs.
    Elizabeth Berry, Woman's Day, 11 July 2022
  • The dancer and actor Min Tanaka is a frail symbol of humankind, struggling to build a road across the water.
    New York Times, 14 July 2021
  • Is the nature of humankind to destroy and subdue, or are there gleams of tenderness and love to be found?
    Angelica Jade Bastién, Vulture, 24 Sep. 2021
  • The Series is set in the future and follows a battle taking place between humankind and a group of aliens known as the Covenant.
    Amy MacKelden, ELLE, 31 Mar. 2023
  • The series is set hundreds of years after humankind has lost the ability to see.
    Joe Otterson, Variety, 29 June 2022
  • This Great Hallel contains prayers of hope that all of humankind will be redeemed.
    Rabbi Avi Weiss, sun-sentinel.com, 11 Apr. 2022
  • Although the lives of humankind play out on the surface of the Earth, for millennia people have explored what lies beneath.
    Shoshi Parks, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 July 2024
  • This would be a serious blow to the cultural and scientific heritage of humankind.
    Ashley Belanger, Ars Technica, 9 July 2024

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