mortal
Example Sentences
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“She is the Immortal one. You should not go in with her. You should wait for her to be ready to go in alone. No mortal man has ever returned from the maze.”
From Literature
"Maybe, by the time I shuffle off this mortal coil, there might be a little more awareness… of the need to bring things back together again," he says.
From BBC
The rap on this year’s pack of gubernatorial hopefuls is they’re a collective bore, as though the lack of A-list sizzle and failure to throw off sparks is some kind of mortal sin.
From Los Angeles Times
Like Donne, we can mine wisdom from the frailty of our mortal bodies—but be grateful that when the bell tolls for thee, plague, smallpox and typhus won’t be to blame.
In reality, the only things in nature that were a match for these snakes were their mortal enemies, the alligators.
From Literature
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
