How to Use inhuman in a Sentence

inhuman

adjective
  • 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
  • Murphy plays a slender and soulful bicycle courier who wakes up from a coma to discover that the world has been upended by a virus that turns people into inhuman, ravenous monsters.
    Danny Horn, EW.com, 7 Mar. 2024

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