Sample Sentences for

mortal

grouped by contextual meaning

(editor-reviewed)

In the story, she was neither a mortal nor a god. She was a demi-god.

NO MORTAL OR GHOST IS SAFE!  (source) J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, 1998

"… Our helper He a-mid the floods," wafted out across the Common in the tempo of a football march, "Of mortal ills prevailing!"  (source) John Knowles, A Separate Peace, 1959

Brother Daniel was talking of the last moment we knew of in Mary's human life... Our Blessed Mother had been taken up into heaven, body and soul. What did we think of that? We went around the room, everyone declaring it was an honor for a mere mortal.  (source) Julia Alvarez, In the Time of the Butterflies, 1994

Few mortals have ever done this and survived:  (source) Rick Riordan, The Lightning Thief, 2005

Nonmortal force only.†  (source) Dan Brown, Angels & Demons, 2000

The books are to remind us what asses and fools we are. They're Caesar's praetorian guard, whispering as the parade roars down the avenue, 'Remember, Caesar, thou art mortal.'  (source) Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451, 1953

Lestat hunted for mortals every night,  (source) Anne Rice, Interview with the Vampire, 1976

Nonmortal procurement.†  (source) Dan Brown, Angels & Demons, 2000

Even a fourteenth share was wealth exceedingly great, greater than that of many mortal kings.  (source) J. R. R. Tolkien, The Hobbit, 1937

...dreams no mortals ever dared to dream before;  (source) Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven, 1850

Exposing what is mortal and unsure to all that fortune, death and danger dare, even for an eggshell.  (source) Aldous Huxley, Brave New World, 1932

…the high sense of having realised a great acquisition in the promise of Fanny for a daughter, formed just such a contrast with his early opinion on the subject when the poor little girl's coming had been first agitated, as time is for ever producing between the plans and decisions of mortals, for their own instruction, and their neighbours' entertainment.  (source) Jane Austen, Mansfield Park, 1814

It was a slow death from the mortal injury.

And, of course, Rostam inflicting a mortal wound onto his son, the warrior Sohrab.  (source) Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner, 2003

Why had I not followed him and closed with him in mortal strife?  (source) Mary Shelley, Frankenstein, 1831

Look down on a poor soul in worse than mortal peril.  (source) Bram Stoker, Dracula, 1897

Redd screeched, and again The Cat felt the stinging, mortal blow of her scepter.  (source) Frank Beddor, The Looking Glass Wars, 2006

I trembled with rage and horror, resolving to wait his approach and then close with him in mortal combat.  (source) Mary Shelley, Frankenstein, 1831

We each held ready to use our various armaments, the spiritual in the left hand, the mortal in the right.  (source) Bram Stoker, Dracula, 1897

I swear; and by thee, O Night, and the spirits that preside over thee, to pursue the daemon who caused this misery, until he or I shall perish in mortal conflict.  (source) Mary Shelley, Frankenstein, 1831

My very friend, hath got his mortal hurt In my behalf;  (source) William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, 1599

Roll'd from his chariot with a mortal wound,  (source) Virgil, The Aeneid, -19 B.C.

a serpent armed with mortal sting.  (source) John Milton, Paradise Lost, 1667

Come, you spirits That tend on mortal thoughts,  (source) William Shakespeare, Macbeth, 1606

Such mortal drugs I have;  (source) William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, 1599

They are mortal enemies.

If Harry Potter goes back to Hogwarts, he will be in mortal danger.  (source) J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, 1998

From what I could gather on the rare occasions when Isaac shared with the group, a recurrence had placed his remaining eye in mortal peril.  (source) John Green, The Fault in Our Stars, 2012

For four mortal hours she sat on a wooden bench and struggled to grasp the tricky process of carding wool.  (source) Elizabeth George Speare, The Witch of Blackbird Pond, 1958

The instant Curly kicked open the door, he realized there was no poisonous snake in the bathroom, no cause for mortal alarm.  (source) Carl Hiassen, Hoot, 2002

He saw the world as a battlefield in which the children of light were locked in mortal conflict with the sons of darkness.  (source) Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart, 1958

He took a deep breath and exhaled through his nose, the air hissing through his mustache for what seemed an eternity I couldn't decide whether I wanted to hug him or leap from his lap in mortal fear.  (source) Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner, 2003

She looked like a woman who walked in mortal fear…  (source) Agatha Christie, And Then There Were None, 1939

It was a frightening pain, because he could not see what was happening, and he had the feeling that some mortal injury was being done to him.  (source) George Orwell, 1984, 1949

I am in mortal terror at this turn, for I haven't any idea what the things are called professionally.  (source) Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front, 1929

...him that always seemed to have such a mortal dread of little girls.  (source) Lucy Maud Montgomery, Anne Of Green Gables, 1908

Tears, unrestrained, fell from my brother's eyes; a sense of mortal agony crept over my frame.  (source) Mary Shelley, Frankenstein, 1831

So a lurking humor ran through his deeds, and it was his delight to steal upon the squirrels, and, when he all but had them, to let them go, chattering in mortal fear to the treetops.  (source) Jack London, The Call of the Wild, 1903