How to Use inhuman in a Sentence

inhuman

adjective
  • He let out an inhuman moan.
  • She had an almost inhuman desire to succeed.
  • And that inhuman wail, that was truly the sound of her voice?
    — Jordan Crucchiola, Vulture, 7 Aug. 2023
  • Levi drops in a deep inhuman sound, like the roar of a satanic bellows.
    — Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Jan. 2024
  • The film gives the ants a chance to boast about their inhuman coördination.
    — Matthew Hutson, The New Yorker, 22 Jan. 2023
  • And that comes not just from tools that can sift through the inhuman volume of alerts and distractions.
    — Forbes, 3 Jan. 2022
  • These Covid rules are a mess, inhuman and contain no fairness.
    — Washington Post, 19 Apr. 2021
  • What kept him on this list was his inhuman size and strength, combined with his mobility.
    — Michael Haag, Dallas News, 15 Aug. 2023
  • In our show, the thing is that our villains suffer not from being inhuman, but being too human.
    — Yvonne Villarreal, Los Angeles Times, 27 May 2025
  • Asking the players to bench press the rule book would be cruel and inhuman punishment.
    — Barry Wilner, Star Tribune, 8 Oct. 2020
  • The Force flows through both of them, allowing their bodies to jump and flip at inhuman angles.
    — Lauren Morgan, EW.com, 19 Dec. 2019
  • But the sight of Lenny’s horrible, inhuman face lifting into a snarl did the job.
    — Wesley Snipes, The Root, 27 May 2018
  • And referring to them as less than that should not justify inhuman treatment.
    — Elizabeth Wellington, Philly.com, 21 June 2018
  • To see this as anything other than a horrific tragedy shows an inhuman lack of compassion.
    — Dr. Keith Roach, oregonlive, 10 Aug. 2021
  • Called them inhuman again just the other day, more lies and dehumanization.
    — Adam Taylor, Washington Post, 13 Dec. 2023
  • Israel knows women and babies were tortured, burned and posed in inhuman ways for one reason — to frighten.
    — Boston Herald Editorial Staff, Boston Herald, 22 Mar. 2026
  • Both stories focus on the sometimes inhuman treatment of pledges by older frat members.
    — Tirdad Derakhshani, Philly.com, 20 July 2017
  • Her feelings transformed her to become a monster, an inhuman creature.
    — Destiny Jackson, Deadline, 27 Feb. 2026
  • That unified force was a God too massive, too inhuman, to resist with the atheism in which I had been brought up.
    — Jia Tolentino, The New Yorker, 29 Apr. 2017
  • Just as there has been a backlash against overt politics among players, there is a backlash against what are seen as the more inhuman aspects of the game.
    — Schuyler Velasco, The Christian Science Monitor, 7 Sep. 2017
  • That same cold and inhuman world of computers could also make Thompson feel isolated and prompt her to act out.
    — Maya Miller, Anchorage Daily News, 19 June 2022
  • To beat the Bills would demand inhuman precision, and Reich knew it.
    — New York Times, 9 Jan. 2021
  • The players are the townspeople trying to push back against various inhuman threats, like sentient plants or space aliens.
    — Rachel Rothman, Good Housekeeping, 18 Nov. 2022
  • Job seekers need a whole new plan to succeed in an increasingly inhuman labor market.
    — Chris Tomlinson, Houston Chronicle, 5 Feb. 2026
  • The wind was making a low, inhuman muttering in the pines, and, inspired, the animals let loose in call-and-response.
    — Lauren Groff, The New Yorker, 23 May 2016
  • Demanding that sort of health virtue from others is a way to render those who don’t measure up as inhuman, incapable of agency.
    — Joseph Osmundson, The New Republic, 30 July 2020
  • The game’s graphics were criticized for looking inhuman and primitive, when the hair physics weren’t glitching like crazy.
    — K. Thor Jensen, PCMAG, 10 Mar. 2022
  • Those pastel colors were the expression of a deeply alien process, a truly inhuman perspective on the human face.
    — Michael W. Clune, Harpers Magazine, 16 July 2025
  • Merlin, inhuman and deeply cynical, is only in it for the power, which creatures like himself desire above all else.
    — Vivian Shaw, Washington Post, 21 Aug. 2020
  • But those tears are also what some of us need to restore a kind of personhood to the seemingly inhuman and ostensibly guilty.
    — New York Times, 8 Feb. 2022

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