How to Use inhumane in a Sentence

inhumane

adjective

• They were greeted by about a dozen protesters who saw the city’s action as inhumane, but there was no confrontation with the crew.
  — Gary Warth, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 May 2021
• Tinseltown has always been a big believer in inhumane sacrifice as a means to get ahead.
  — Tom Nunan, Forbes, 5 May 2021
• But critics said that lawmakers arrived at a solution that was retrograde and inhumane.
  — New York Times, 7 May 2021
• News of these captures and the often inhumane treatment of Americans spurred Congress to act.
  — David F. Eisner, National Review, 31 May 2021
• Stokes’ wife and father attended the protest, with his father James Stokes saying his son’s treatment was inhumane.
  — Dennis Pillion | [e-mail], al, 7 May 2021
• An organization that's been taken to task by a Disney heir, no less, for its inhumane treatment of employees at its parks.
  — Sara Stewart, CNN, 29 May 2021
• Most importantly, this type of gradated treatment is inhumane.
  — Ashley Andreou, Scientific American, 7 June 2021
• Even with nothing but darkness at the end of the tunnel, Manuel was determined to have a voice, to express the damage done by an inhumane and corrupt system.
  — al, 3 May 2021
• Private ownership of tigers and other big cats has long been criticized by animal advocates as reckless and inhumane.
  — Faith Karimi, CNN, 13 May 2021
• Her lawsuit also accuses Combs of harassment and inhumane treatment.
  — Alexandra Del Rosario, Los Angeles Times, 13 Sep. 2024
• This all stems from California’s decision decades ago to close many psychiatric hospitals that were viewed as inhumane and move care into the community.
  — Heather Knight, San Francisco Chronicle, 30 May 2021
• The relationships among the characters feel lived-in; the generational tension between a group of layabout teens, pulling inhumane pranks in the woods, and their pained parents is especially vivid.
  — Doreen St. Félix, The New Yorker, 3 May 2021
• Some of those photos served as evidence at a court martial for the prison camp commander, who was executed on charges of murder and instituting cruel and inhumane punishment.
  — Samantha Baskind, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 May 2021
• The movie, to its credit, is not inhumane about what happens to the bear.
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 23 Feb. 2023
• That's the biggest issue is no one wants to be inhumane about this.
  — CBS News, 14 May 2023
• Biden has called the policy inhumane and has vowed to end it.
  — Washington Post, 8 Dec. 2021
• The way we are told to search for love is fairly inhumane and unworkable.
  — Jessica Goodman, ELLE, 11 Feb. 2022
• He's been captured and treated in the most inhumane way and has seen the worst of humanity.
  — Christian Holub, EW.com, 31 Aug. 2022
• But these asylums had often been brutal, inhumane places, and the state had shut them down.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 23 Sep. 2021
• Many argue that this process, which involves force-feeding the birds, is inhumane.
  — Tori Latham, Robb Report, 10 Feb. 2023
• But in May 1921, an inhumane act demolished the community in the blink of an eye.
  — Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 27 June 2024
• Critics have called the buoy system barbaric and inhumane and linked it to the drowning deaths of two migrants last week.
  — Todd J. Gillman, Dallas News, 10 Aug. 2023
• People in prisons, in detention, are forced to work in inhumane conditions for no pay for the profit of the state.
  — Yoonjung Seo, CNN, 23 Mar. 2023
• What’s the latest step in building a new Cuyahoga County jail, to replace the one that has been labeled as inhumane at times?
  — Laura Johnston, cleveland, 1 July 2021
• Dan Rodricks’ column resonates with the need for hope and prayer in light of the inhumane words and actions of the previous president.
  — Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 3 Jan. 2024
• In many countries of the world, those who need peace, those suffer inhumane destruction.
  — Amy Nakamura, USA TODAY, 16 Mar. 2022
• This all seems inhumane and tortuous after knowing that there’s a better way to work and lead your life.
  — Jack Kelly, Forbes, 2 Sep. 2021
• If his standards were inhumane, then why was Ms. Robb still drawn to the beauty of his choreography?
  — Alex Vadukul, New York Times, 24 Feb. 2023
• Many Americans came away from the book convinced that end-of-life care in hospitals was inhumane.
  — Ava Kofman, ProPublica, 28 Nov. 2022
• What begins as an inhumane interrogation turns into a true martyrdom: the wrong group of people have been kidnapped.
  — Matt Grobar, Deadline, 5 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 3 Nov 2024