How to Use humankind in a Sentence

humankind

noun
  • Thank you, sir, for your service to our country and to humankind.
    — Jack Smart, People.com, 9 Aug. 2025
  • This is a human-to-humankind-to-all-of-life scenario.
    — Literary Hub, 6 May 2026
  • Storytelling dates back to the dawn of humankind.
    — John Hopewell, Variety, 6 Jan. 2026
  • Few forces known to humankind can put eyes on screens like the NFL does.
    — Steven Louis Goldstein, New York Times, 25 Aug. 2025
  • Or is there more to humankind than our physical bodies?
    — Literary Hub, 20 Oct. 2025
  • For decades, humankind steeled itself for the rise of thinking machines.
    — Charlie Campbell, Time, 11 Dec. 2025
  • We are all born naked, and sculptures of the human body in its natural state are as old as humankind.
    — Anna Swartwood House, The Conversation, 2 Mar. 2026
  • In the meantime, however, humankind was not there to be bettered.
    — Anthony Lane, New Yorker, 19 Oct. 2026
  • If those plans were to pass, the sky as humankind has known it for millions of years would change beyond recognition.
    — Tereza Pultarova, Space.com, 22 Mar. 2026
  • Think of the flood sent to punish humankind that Noah avoids by building the ark, for example.
    — Casper Ter Kuile, Vox, 21 Oct. 2026
  • Long before humankind – that brief, busy interlude.
    — Literary Hub, 3 Nov. 2025
  • More-than-human design need not always involve humankind.
    — Jonathon Keats, Forbes.com, 4 Aug. 2025
  • That is three times as many people as would have died had humankind not warmed the planet by burning oil, gas and coal, the researchers said.
    — Raymond Zhong, New York Times, 22 Oct. 2026
  • The connectedness of fashion and art, as well as all of humankind, pulses throughout the show.
    — Rosemary Feitelberg, Footwear News, 4 May 2026
  • Gaudí had planned for parishioners to enter through the façade depicting the history of humankind.
    — D. T. Max, New Yorker, 15 Sep. 2025
  • Space exploration is among the most exciting frontiers for humankind.
    — James Cramer, Baltimore Sun, 20 Aug. 2025
  • That level of insight is going to increase humankind’s knowledge.
    — Tal Rosenberg, Chicago Tribune, 19 Aug. 2026
  • Below Him were angels, followed by all of humankind, from kings and queens to commoners and thieves.
    — Ryan Huling, Time, 7 May 2026
  • The springs that motivate humankind to assume parenthood are deep and abiding.
    — Literary Hub, 21 Jan. 2026
  • On top of all that angst is the assertion that AI is an existential risk to humankind.
    — Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 20 May 2026
  • This is a legacy, perhaps as old as humankind, that transcends generations.
    — Lynn Dewoskin Covarrubias, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Apr. 2026
  • The song tells of a heavenly figure with a message of liberation for humankind.
    — Literary Hub, 15 Jan. 2026
  • On this day in 1859, humankind squared up against Niagara Falls for the first time.
    — Encyclopedia Britannica, 23 June 2026
  • The Hush itself is drawn to the frequencies of humankind, making sound an integral part of the game’s lore.
    — Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 3 Dec. 2025
  • As humankind switched to the internet, printing no longer defines the protocols humans live by.
    — Big Think, 16 Nov. 2025
  • The Moon is older than humankind and has been observed and recorded from prehistory.
    — Literary Hub, 15 July 2026
  • These are powerful incentives for humankind to act as partners on the final frontier.
    — Simonetta Di Pippo, Space.com, 15 Nov. 2025
  • Destroying the hunter-killers’ connection with the mothership shifts the war in favor of humankind.
    — Jp Mangalindan, Time, 24 Oct. 2025
  • Acts of honesty and consideration for other people like this help restore my faith in humankind.
    — Ticked Off, The Orlando Sentinel, 18 Feb. 2026
  • Irrational numbers such as pi or the square root of 2 have always fascinated humankind.
    — Manon Bischoff, Scientific American, 19 June 2026

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