mortals
Example Sentences
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“Orville and I concluded that mortals should not own land like this,” Niman said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 16, 2026
Or was Picasso, even as he edged into immortality, simply a few leaps ahead of ordinary mortals?
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 7, 2026
However, Huppert emphasised the social symbolism of a vampire aristocracy that draws its power by feeding on ordinary mortals.
From Barron's ● Feb. 18, 2026
There’s a wicked irony in micromanaging your entire life on Earth only to croak and have your soul potentially jettisoned to some formless state of being, entirely unknown to mere mortals.
From Salon ● Nov. 27, 2025
The lesser rings were only essays in the craft before it was full-grown, and to the Elven-smiths they were but trifles — yet still to my mind dangerous for mortals.
From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien
