mortals
Example Sentences
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Animation’s expressiveness can’t be captured by mortals, even one as formidable as Johnson, who so enjoys his trickster Maui that he’s played him three times in 10 years.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 9, 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
AI creators are trying to generate not only thinking, productive entities but ones that blaze past mortals in every respect.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 9, 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
From time to time a few mortals were translated to Olympus, but once they had been brought to heaven they vanished from literature.
From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton
