How to Use mankind in a Sentence

mankind

noun
  • Not to mention the Thanos blip that erased half of mankind for five years.
    Chris Smith, BGR, 13 Apr. 2022
  • One of the worst crimes of mankind is to falsely accuse.
    Chris Willman, Variety, 30 Dec. 2021
  • King and his deeds will live on through time as what is best in mankind.
    Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 11 Jan. 2024
  • In the Bible, one of God’s first punishments of mankind.
    Erik Kain, Forbes, 7 June 2022
  • The last thing mankind needs is broccoli from Deep Space.
    Joe Queenan, WSJ, 10 Nov. 2022
  • Where corn, one of the planet’s greatest gifts to mankind, was born!
    Los Angeles Times, 25 July 2022
  • The reason for this: mankind has been freed from sickness and pain.
    Vulture, 20 July 2023
  • The 1935 volcano air strike wasn't the last time mankind trained its weapons of war on nature.
    Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 8 Dec. 2020
  • That’s three games for Gallo, three huge blasts for mankind.
    Evan Grant, Dallas News, 4 Mar. 2021
  • Because what's good for the goose is crucial for mankind.
    Steve Hartman, CBS News, 13 Aug. 2021
  • Obama came to town and helped rebuild our faith in mankind, and the strength of Boston.
    BostonGlobe.com, 2 June 2023
  • Here is the message of the British and American peoples to mankind.
    Nile Gardiner, National Review, 3 Mar. 2021
  • An encounter with the living God is the only hope for mankind.
    Paul Bedard, Washington Examiner, 30 July 2020
  • Texas is a sweet cat, who gets along with other cats but seems to have lost his trust of mankind.
    The Arizona Republic, 28 Nov. 2020
  • What’s next on the road to solving one of mankind's oldest riddles?
    Dana Taylor, USA TODAY, 27 June 2024
  • That's one small step for a man, one giant edit for mankind.
    Fox News, 4 Oct. 2019
  • However, their night of fun goes awry when they're forced to fight for the survival of mankind.
    Stacey Grant, Seventeen, 16 Feb. 2023
  • Much of the special is on YouTube, which is one of mankind's greatest consumers, or wasters, of time.
    Frank Fellone, Arkansas Online, 3 July 2021
  • Going to the moon, once a giant leap for mankind, now costs only $99.
    Steve Rubenstein, San Francisco Chronicle, 19 Feb. 2021
  • Asked which poses the bigger threat to mankind, 35% said A.I., and 63% said humans.
    David Meyer, Fortune, 9 Nov. 2021
  • The kinship between mankind and fowls of the air has long been expressed through music.
    Stephen Humphries, The Christian Science Monitor, 6 June 2022
  • The book of Revelation says that in the end times a third of mankind will be killed from wars, famine, and disease.
    The Rev. Mike Taylor, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 17 Oct. 2020
  • The Founders cared a lot about the opinions of mankind, a word that appears three times in the Declaration.
    TIME, 9 Jan. 2024
  • Climate change has emerged as one of the gravest concerns facing mankind.
    Ajay Khari, Forbes, 29 Nov. 2023
  • The discoveries in the cave have been at the center of debates on the origin of mankind for over 70 years.
    Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 3 July 2022
  • The victims, unlike wartime soldiers, are not dying at the hand of mankind.
    Chastity Pratt, Detroit Free Press, 5 Apr. 2020
  • The cheerful song sparkles with optimism about the future of mankind.
    Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 14 June 2024
  • One small step for Big Pharma, one giant leap for mankind.
    Hanna Lustig, Glamour, 12 July 2022
  • The trauma makes Magneto want to destroy mankind once again, and only the X-Men can stop him.
    Keith Langston, Peoplemag, 27 July 2024
  • The title The Devil, Probably accounts for mankind’s failure.
    Armond White, National Review, 25 Sep. 2024

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