MANKIND in a Sentence

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1. It will bring peace to all mankind.
2. I wept in deliverance and in pity for all mankind.
3. Books are to mankind what memory is to the individuanl.
4. TAll mankind are beholden to him that is kind to the good.
5. The Candle is a great boon to mankind, as approved by all men.

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 Meanings and Examples of MANKIND
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
mankind
 n.  all of the living human inhabitants of the earth
Classic Sentence: (81 in 6 pages)
1  We shall join our hands to theirs, and we shall work together, with the power of the sky, for the glory of mankind.
Anthem By Ayn Rand
Context  Highlight   In PART SIX
2  The Candle is a great boon to mankind, as approved by all men.
Anthem By Ayn Rand
Context  Highlight   In PART SEVEN
3  I wept in deliverance and in pity for all mankind.
Anthem By Ayn Rand
Context  Highlight   In PART TWELVE
4  For when this is attended to, the mass of mankind accept what seems as what is; nay, are often touched more nearly by appearances than by realities.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XXV.
5  has given the earth to the children of men; given it to mankind in common.
Second Treatise of Government By John Locke
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
6  Nor will it invalidate his right, to say every body else has an equal title to it; and therefore he cannot appropriate, he cannot inclose, without the consent of all his fellow-commoners, all mankind.
Second Treatise of Government By John Locke
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
7  God, when he gave the world in common to all mankind, commanded man also to labour, and the penury of his condition required it of him.
Second Treatise of Government By John Locke
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
8  And though it be common, in respect of some men, it is not so to all mankind; but is the joint property of this country, or this parish.
Second Treatise of Government By John Locke
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
9  And herein I think lies the chief, if not the only reason, why the male and female in mankind are tied to a longer conjunction than other creatures, viz.
Second Treatise of Government By John Locke
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
10  This every one thinks necessary, and believes he deserves to be thought a declared enemy to society and mankind, who should go about to take it away.
Second Treatise of Government By John Locke
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
11  And then they have nothing to do, but barely to shew us which that is; which when they have done, I doubt not but all mankind will easily agree to pay obedience to him.
Second Treatise of Government By John Locke
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
12  Thus mankind, notwithstanding all the privileges of the state of nature, being but in an ill condition, while they remain in it, are quickly driven into society.
Second Treatise of Government By John Locke
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
13  Both these he gives up, when he joins in a private, if I may so call it, or particular politic society, and incorporates into any commonwealth, separate from the rest of mankind.
Second Treatise of Government By John Locke
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
14  to the will of God, of which that is a declaration, and the fundamental law of nature being the preservation of mankind, no human sanction can be good, or valid against it.
Second Treatise of Government By John Locke
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI
15  But the state of mankind is not so miserable that they are not capable of using this remedy, till it be too late to look for any.
Second Treatise of Government By John Locke
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIX
Example Sentence:
1  According to the Bible, the whole of mankind is descended from Adam.
2  There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want; and ,after that, to enjoy it , only the wisest of mankind achieve the second.
3  Work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind.
4  It is doubtful whether this research is of any benefit to mankind.
5  It will bring peace to all mankind.
6  TAll mankind are beholden to him that is kind to the good.
7  Books are to mankind what memory is to the individuanl.
8  No single space project in this period will be more impressive to mankind, or more important for the long-range exploration of space.
9  No single space project will be more impressive to mankind, and none will be so difficult or expensive to accomplish.
10  The ploy of finding a scapegoat is as old as mankind itself - when things become too difficult at home, divert attention to adventure abroad.
11  There are creatures so little, so weak, as to be easily restrained thus, and triumphed over; but the leviathan is not one of these: he is made to be the terror, not the sport and diversion, of mankind.