How to Use inhumane in a Sentence

inhumane

adjective
  • And some would posit, in some ways, and inhumane choice to compel.
    — Steve Inskeep, NPR, 15 Jan. 2025
  • What happened to my dad was very inhumane.
    — ABC News, 5 Apr. 2026
  • Biden has called the policy inhumane and has vowed to end it.
    — Washington Post, 8 Dec. 2021
  • That's the biggest issue is no one wants to be inhumane about this.
    — CBS News, 14 May 2023
  • The movie, to its credit, is not inhumane about what happens to the bear.
    — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 23 Feb. 2023
  • The way we are told to search for love is fairly inhumane and unworkable.
    — Jessica Goodman, ELLE, 11 Feb. 2022
  • Does such a precedent open a door for inhumane and cruel laws elsewhere too?
    — Naresh Fernandes, Quartz India, 6 Jan. 2020
  • What is happening on the ground is inhumane.
    — Sarah Ferguson, Forbes.com, 8 Aug. 2025
  • Stop the inhumane actions that are taking place.
    — Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 18 Feb. 2026
  • But these asylums had often been brutal, inhumane places, and the state had shut them down.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 23 Sep. 2021
  • This inhumane nightmare will not end anytime soon.
    — Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 9 Jan. 2026
  • The conditions that my actions have placed me in are inhumane.
    — Lauren Del Valle, CNN Money, 2 Oct. 2025
  • Many argue that this process, which involves force-feeding the birds, is inhumane.
    — Tori Latham, Robb Report, 10 Feb. 2023
  • Delaney said the posts are inhumane, disgusting and filled with hate.
    — Chris Sikich, The Indianapolis Star, 29 Oct. 2020
  • His war on immigration breaks the law and is inhumane.
    — Paul Bedard, The Washington Examiner, 27 Dec. 2025
  • The goal of slaveowners was to breed more slaves and make black women appear to be inhumane.
    — Crystal D. Carter, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 16 Aug. 2019
  • The way he was treated was inhumane and degrading.
    — Efrat Lachter, FOXNews.com, 3 June 2026
  • The Casa livestream twist is an inhumane form of torture that the girls are not taking lightly.
    — Kathleen Walsh, Vulture, 22 June 2026
  • Fast fashion is built off inhumane practices and methods that hurt, even kill, workers.
    — Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 22 May 2026
  • In many countries of the world, those who need peace, those suffer inhumane destruction.
    — Amy Nakamura, USA TODAY, 16 Mar. 2022
  • Animal rights groups cheered the measure as a stand against inhumane practices.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Oct. 2019
  • Yet every era also runs the risk of creating an inhumane and more unjust world.
    — Pope Leo Xiv, Boston Herald, 9 June 2026
  • He's been captured and treated in the most inhumane way and has seen the worst of humanity.
    — Christian Holub, EW.com, 31 Aug. 2022
  • Thousands of dogs across the state only know life like this and many dogs die as a result of inhumane tethering.
    — Anna M. Tinsley, star-telegram.com, 5 May 2017
  • The fact that people commit inhumane crimes does not give the state the right to treat them inhumanely.
    — Edmund H. Mahony, courant.com, 29 Aug. 2019
  • This all seems inhumane and tortuous after knowing that there’s a better way to work and lead your life.
    — Jack Kelly, Forbes, 2 Sep. 2021
  • In the face of such an inhumane policy, however, there are no good quick fixes.
    — Emily Dreyfuss, WIRED, 27 June 2018
  • Israelis are also allowed to make the most inhumane comments.
    — Doris Bittar, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 June 2022
  • Critics point to issues such as inhumane killing procedures, a plunge in crime rates and the death penalty’s high cost.
    — Kevin O'Neal Cokley, The Conversation, 27 Nov. 2019
  • Increasing the use of rat poisons would only result in more inhumane wildlife deaths.
    — Arkansas Online, 20 Jan. 2026

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