How to Use mortal in a Sentence

mortal

1 of 2 adjective
  • He suffered a mortal wound in the battle.
  • Every living creature is mortal.
  • How like the child of mortal man!
    — Literary Hub, 27 Oct. 2025
  • On top of that, UConn has looked mortal as of late.
    — Shreyas Laddha, Kansas City Star, 16 Mar. 2026
  • Take away those home-run balls from last week, and Salter might look mortal again.
    — Kyle Newman, Denver Post, 26 Sep. 2025
  • But for all their bad habits, sea lions are the ones in mortal danger.
    — Nell Lewis; Video By Hazel Pfeifer, CNN, 3 May 2022
  • Every year, there’s a team that looks inevitable and turns out to be quite mortal.
    — Pete Sampson, New York Times, 7 May 2026
  • The rest of the horses were in mortal terror of Dick.
    — Dolores Brown, Outdoor Life, 17 June 2026
  • Helwys declared the king was mortal and not God.
    — Christopher Schelin, The Conversation, 24 Feb. 2026
  • In one retelling, Zeus’s dear dog was stolen by the mortal Pandareus.
    — Liza Lentini, SPIN, 16 June 2022
  • The rich men were then left to foot the bill, as has always been the way in this model-mortal food chain.
    — Tom Rasmussen, Vogue, 23 Nov. 2022
  • No human counsel hath devised, nor hath any mortal hand worked out these great things.
    — Time, 23 Nov. 2022
  • What makes some souls linger on Earth, long after their mortal lives have ended?
    — Angie Han, HollywoodReporter, 19 Sep. 2025
  • Perhaps that’s why so many of us fans were in shock to hear his creator had been mortal after all.
    — Jarrett J. Krosoczka, BostonGlobe.com, 3 Aug. 2023
  • The worlds depicted in his novels are not built for mortal humans like you and me.
    — Graeme Wood, The Atlantic, 14 June 2023
  • But James has been much more mortal in the two games since, and the Lakers have lost both.
    — Los Angeles Times, 30 Apr. 2026
  • Mind or spirit is mortal and physical and thus cannot exist without the body.
    — Literary Hub, 10 Oct. 2025
  • What’s true for Shakespeare also holds for mere mortal playwrights.
    — Charles McNultytheater Critic, Los Angeles Times, 5 Jan. 2023
  • Without spoiling too much, there isn’t much to spoil; Lost Lambs has no such mortal stakes.
    — Gideon Leek, The Atlantic, 13 Jan. 2026
  • This Colorado Avalanche team is mortal, after all.
    — Corey Masisak, Denver Post, 5 Dec. 2025
  • The Fulcrum is failing, and demons are slipping into the mortal world.
    — Danielle Parker, CBS News, 27 Feb. 2026
  • Vladimir Putin is mortal, but is Russia’s great power status, too?
    — WSJ, 4 Nov. 2022
  • The smoothie man gets to have his hockey god, and the hockey god’s desire for the smoothie man brings him down to the mortal plane.
    — E. Alex Jung, Vulture, 23 Feb. 2026
  • Realizing the bird was in mortal danger, a rescue team was dispatched to save it.
    — Allison Moses, USA TODAY, 8 June 2022
  • Where Clemson, with a 40-game home winning streak snapped, can begin to feel mortal.
    — Bryce Millercolumnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Nov. 2022
  • The worker ran outside where the attacker dealt him the mortal wounds in a public square, the ministry said.
    — Bradford Betz, Fox News, 26 Jan. 2023
  • This secret sanctuary was full of herbs both magical and mortal.
    — Charlotte Phillipp, PEOPLE, 15 Sep. 2025
  • These are things that are beyond our mortal comprehension, but that are maybe coming in the near-future.
    — Deputy Managing Editor, Los Angeles Times, 31 Mar. 2026
  • These are things that are beyond our mortal comprehension, but that are maybe coming in the near-future.
    — Emily Zemler, Los Angeles Times, 30 Mar. 2026
  • If five days off caused a mortal wound, the Houston Astros would be affected as well.
    — Bill Shaikin, Los Angeles Times, 12 Oct. 2023

mortal

2 of 2 noun
  • She is then forced to fight a vampire as a mere mortal.
    — ArsTechnica, 7 June 2026
  • Now, at last, the dress is available for us mere mortals to buy.
    — Katherine J Igoe, Marie Claire, 30 Aug. 2019
  • Some celebs have graced us mere mortals with a glimpse at their alter egos.
    — Carly Breit, PEOPLE.com, 23 Oct. 2019
  • New podcasts come out all the time, and no mere mortal can keep up with them all.
    — Lizz Schumer, Good Housekeeping, 21 Sep. 2020
  • Lesser mortals might have been tempted to take a shot at goal.
    — SI.com, 31 May 2018
  • But like many mere mortals, Eden also has a sweet tooth.
    — Stephanie Nolasco, FOXNews.com, 25 Aug. 2025
  • Plenty, of course, and therein lies a few lessons for us mere mortals.
    — Steve Strauss, USA TODAY, 14 Nov. 2019
  • For most mere mortals, clarity takes blood, sweat, and tears.
    — Greg Orme, Forbes, 30 Nov. 2023
  • Lori needs to pay for her action according to the laws of mortals.
    — Itzel Luna, USA TODAY, 31 July 2023
  • For the rest of us mere mortals, a salon visit with follow-ups is key.
    — Loren Savini, Allure, 7 Mar. 2023
  • Celebrity divorces seem to occur at a rate faster than those of us mere mortals.
    — Christopher Rosa, Glamour, 30 Dec. 2019
  • Happily for us mere mortals, that’s a look that is more than achievable.
    — Georgia Day, Glamour, 29 Aug. 2023
  • In the realm of the mere mortal (and the undead), Snyder thrives.
    — Tribune News Service, cleveland, 14 May 2021
  • The answer, at least for us mere mortals, is no, and that’s likely for the better.
    — Carlos Aguilar, Los Angeles Times, 20 Oct. 2023
  • On a night Towns was anywhere close to mortal, the Spurs might have won the game.
    — Jeff McDonald, San Antonio Express-News, 14 Mar. 2022
  • What fools these non-OpenAI mortals must be.
    — Jim Cramer, CNBC, 15 Feb. 2026
  • Foolish mortals can soon tie the knot at two haunting new Disney venues.
    — Eve Chen, USA Today, 4 Feb. 2026
  • Any one of these things, let alone two or three, could have killed most mortals' careers -- forget their legacies.
    — Eliott C. McLaughlin, CNN, 23 Feb. 2020
  • The book’s ending leaves mortals trembling on the precipice of post-human greatness.
    — Paul Di Filippo, Washington Post, 16 June 2019
  • The book's ending leaves mortals trembling on the precipice of post-human greatness.
    — Paul Di Filippo, Dallas News, 18 June 2019
  • Then again, mere mortals cannot be expected to understand the logic of the gods.
    — Dalton Ross, EW.com, 14 May 2020
  • Every second counts for skimo racers, and a skimo pack lets us mortals co-opt some of that need for speed.
    — Anthony Walsh, Outside, 26 Feb. 2026
  • The mortal gently cleanses the cast-iron with water, like a doting river nymph.
    — Emma Allen, The New Yorker, 3 Dec. 2021
  • Astra is now a mortal struggling to adapt to the real world and ends up making a new friend who promises to help her.
    — Washington Post, 5 June 2021
  • The all-powerful wizard or a mere mortal — the man behind the curtain?
    — Steven P. Dinkin, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Feb. 2022
  • No mere mortal can defeat the indestructible force of the Plaschke curse.
    — Los Angeles Times, 3 Dec. 2021
  • As of mid-July, nine of the largest bricks-and-mortal retailers had announced mask rules.
    — Washington Post, 30 July 2020
  • While most of us mere mortals are wearing mom jeans and crop tops, Billie's out here in neon ski masks and furry yeti pants.
    — Kelsey Stiegman, Seventeen, 26 June 2019
  • But for the rest of us mere mortals, the idea of stepping into an ice bath for 10 minutes a day is awful.
    — Big Think, 3 Sep. 2025
  • They were created before there ever was time and matter, and they cannot be perceived by mortals.
    — Jordan Hoffman, Entertainment Weekly, 9 Nov. 2025

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