How to Use humane in a Sentence

humane

adjective
  • Conditions in the prison are more humane now.
  • It's not humane to treat animals that way.
  • And above all, more just and more humane.
    — Javier Hasse, Forbes.com, 18 Aug. 2025
  • Malle has such a humane view on all of these people in the film.
    — Los Angeles Times, 6 Mar. 2026
  • Open borders are not kind or humane.
    — Mike Garcia, Oc Register, 11 Aug. 2025
  • This method, thought to be more humane, also keeps the fish firm.
    — Pete Wells, New York Times, 19 Sep. 2023
  • The film is doing that in a very humane and honest way.
    — Angelica Jade Bastién, Vulture, 11 Sep. 2025
  • No one should have to make that choice, and every seat should have a humane amount of space.
    — Christopher Elliott, USA TODAY, 3 Jan. 2025
  • If said frog isn’t all-the-way-dead, the humane thing to do is kill it quickly.
    — Sophie Hartley, IndyStar, 9 Sep. 2025
  • Even doing the eight shows a week is so much more humane than touring.
    — Chris Willman, Variety, 15 Feb. 2025
  • Now, is this the most humane way that we are addressed asylum?
    — CBS News, 18 Dec. 2022
  • Still, a thinker as humane as Eliot surely has bright light to shed.
    — Becca Rothfeld, Washington Post, 4 Aug. 2023
  • Clarence was humane and fair and inspired love and respect from all who knew him.
    — Daniel S. Levine, Peoplemag, 15 Aug. 2023
  • This is war reporting at its finest, its most clear-eyed, its most humane.
    — Longreads, 6 Dec. 2022
  • The whole system is easy to set up and humane, while giving your dog a whole yard to play in.
    — Christopher Murray May Earn A Commission If You Buy Through Our Referral Links. This Content Was Created By A Team That Works Independently From The Fox Newsroom., FOXNews.com, 13 May 2025
  • Ten percent of all sales at that time will go to the humane society.
    — Melinda Moore, Chicago Tribune, 2 Sep. 2025
  • Putting aside the specifics of this conflict, what is the humane way to deal with civilians in war zones?
    — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 15 Oct. 2023
  • In the past half century, war waged by states has become more humane.
    — Dexter Filkins, The New Yorker, 6 Sep. 2021
  • Its open-air layout of trailers was supposed to be more humane.
    — Caitlin Dickerson, The Atlantic, 10 Mar. 2026
  • Gray may have been a Modernist, but her designs were deeply humane.
    — Los Angeles Times, 22 Sep. 2021
  • But there is nothing humane about letting people sleep in the street.
    — New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 30 Jan. 2026
  • That is Bobby at his very finest, his most humane, his most mature.
    — Jennifer Senior, The Atlantic, 9 Aug. 2021
  • But three pods on the fourth floor hold out hope for more humane and effective treatment.
    — Francine Kiefer, The Christian Science Monitor, 18 May 2021
  • In every story, cats find ways to teach their humans to be – well, more humane.
    — Terry Hong, The Christian Science Monitor, 26 Oct. 2023
  • The club is new and the dressing room feels more humane than most, like a hotel banquet room.
    — Celina Pereira, Los Angeles Times, 28 Jan. 2026
  • Biden has pledged to take a more humane approach than the one in 2014.
    — Cindy Carcamo Staff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 16 Mar. 2021
  • That humane choice created a bill that never went away.
    — Teresa Ghilarducci, Forbes.com, 11 June 2026
  • The Obama years, those good old days of recent past, were at least a more humane era.
    — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 20 Aug. 2020
  • What redeems the film is the humane attempt to reach beyond the myth to access the man.
    — Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 9 Aug. 2024
  • But Tarbox said the humane society did not have a record of that call.
    — Vanessa Arredondo, San Francisco Chronicle, 8 Mar. 2021

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