mortal being
Example Sentences
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He denounces his status as a mortal being and goes on to encourage whoever’s listening to do the same if that’s what they want to do.
From Washington Post • Jul. 27, 2021
Bohm was desperate to know, to discover the secret of everything, but he knew it wasn’t attainable, not for any mortal being.
From Scientific American • Jul. 28, 2018
Rather the open, clear, knife-through-butter pain that comes from a mortal being who eventually will lose all and yet who cares.
From Time Magazine Archive
The mortal being with the divine gaze triumphs over the sightless goddesses.
From Time Magazine Archive
I hold a middle rank 'twixt heaven and earth, On the last verge of mortal being stand, Close to the realms where angels have their birth, Just on the boundaries of the spirit-land!
From A Survey of Russian Literature, with Selections by Hapgood, Isabel Florence
