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mortal

Someone or something that is mortal can age, be injured, die, or disappear. Even stars, though living millions or billions of years, are mortal. When they are young, people usually don't think they are mortal.

mortal

A mortal is a human being, as opposed to immortal beings such as gods or beings with supernatural powers. To ancient Greeks mortals were only toys in the hands of gods. Son of a sorceress and a mortal, he still inherited his mother's powers.

mortal

subject to death mortal beings (= person) a human being there was too much for one person to do (= deadly) involving loss of divine grace or spiritual death the seven deadly sins unrelenting and deadly mortal enemy (= deadly) causing or capable of causing death a fatal accident a deadly enemy mortal combat a mortal illness

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Simple sentences

Man is mortal.
All human beings are mortal.
All men are mortal, all Greeks are men, therefore all Greeks are mortal.
Old bread can sometimes be used as a mortal weapon.
Quantum physics is too difficult for a mere mortal to understand.
God help your mortal soul.
Men are mortal because of their fears, and immortal because of their hopes.
All men are mortal. Tom is a man. Therefore, Tom is mortal.
Are humans mortal?
All men are mortal.
How can you, a mere mortal, dare to criticise Tom?
We know that all men are mortal.
The flesh is mortal.
All men are mortal. Socrates was mortal. Therefore, all men are Socrates.
We know all men are mortal.

Movie subtitles

Do not forget, when my mortal remains are taken away, to put a horseshoe over the door and to strew linseed after me so that I shall not haunt you.
Mortal terror and fear of death swept through the town.
The centry's no mortal good to him if he can't put up works.
Will you swear by almighty god that you and your family and that agent of yours won't breathe a word of this shocking thing to a mortal soul?
The mortal tedium of immortality.
Your soul is in a mortal body, renewed many times since we loved in Thebes of old.
The bite itself is hardly ever mortal.
The publishers did not see that my purpose was to write a moral lesson of the punishment that befell a mortal man who dared to emulate God.
I called on you seven years ago. to enlist the resources of Scotland Yard. for an unfortunate mortal afflicted with lycanthrophobia.
Nothing except the most ridiculous and sickening exhibition. mortal man ever made of himself.
I challenge you to mortal combat, Black Knight!
Telling a mortal you're a witch will only mean the end of you.
Until you have resumed a more spirit-like existence. you shall be a mere mortal!
But the moment he heard Capt. Jack Stuart had landed. Dr. Jepson said no mortal means could keep the Commodore at home.
A human being is mortal and changeable. with desires and impulses. hopes and despairs.
It means that at 12 o'clock tonight, here in this room, we will meet in mortal combat. A duel to the death.
There was an absolute halo about you. - How sweet. It transcended any mortal expression I've seen.
Dr. Jepson said no mortal means could keep the Commodore at home.
Because of him, Sisters commit mortal sins.
As your priest, I forbid this mortal sin.
You three have persisted in sin, mortal sin.
No mortal cold, Sally.
As a mortal, of course.
I shall be a mortal, and I must be treated as a mortal in every particular.
I am to become a mortal.
No. I am a mortal, still, for a few minutes.
Today the usurers are the gods of the earth, and the only mortal sin is to be poor.
And what art thou, thou idle ceremony, that suffer'st more of mortal griefs than do they worshippers?
This is the entire mortal remains of Black Prince.
Maybe, there is a monster in the forest, threatening you by mortal danger?
It's a mortal sin.
Come, you spirits that tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here, and fill me from the crown to the toe top-full of direst cruelty!
The times have been, that, when the brains were out, the man would die, and there an end; but now they rise again, with twenty mortal murders on their crowns, and push us from our stools.

News and current affairs

If governments that have already tapped-out their debt-bearing capacity now issued more debt or money or guarantees, they would deal a mortal blow to confidence.
In the late 1930s, when Jews in Germany and Austria were in mortal danger, few countries, including the wealthy United States, were prepared to take in more than a handful of refugees.
Armenia may have adopted in 1995 a new Constitution with fine phrases about freedom of speech, but both the petty harassments and the mortal threats of the Soviet era remain.
We may thus have to learn how to exploit these synergies and use the weapons that microbes provide us, rather than look at them only as mortal enemies marked for peremptory extermination.
But today he lives in mortal danger, aware that he is silently stalked by the forces that once sided with him.
Globalization has not received a mortal blow - at least not yet.
It became widely believed that financial markets are such sublime poolers of information that they represent a collective judgment that transcends that of any mere mortal.
Since the Wahhabis consider the Shi'a apostates, the challenge from the Shi'a - both within and without Saudi Arabia - represents a mortal threat.
The inventors of the Third Way mostly overlooked the value of individual liberty, but it is this that remains the single most important issue in a world where open societies still face mortal enemies.
Yet when thousands or hundreds of thousands of people were exposed to mortal threats that he had the authority and duty to avert, alleviate, or at least announce, he failed abjectly.
An atmosphere of mortal fear, mutual suspicion, and hatred among the Communist elite was the catalyst for Nikita Khrushchev's post-Stalin thaw.
Morsi's autocratic inclinations may have damaged democracy; taking him out in a coup deals it a mortal blow.
If you are not living in mortal fear of rape and beatings at home, you can organize your community to dig a new well.
Given the US record since the doctrine was formulated, another criterion should be added: the main beneficiaries of military intervention are not America's mortal enemies.
But, with the decline of secular nationalism and Islamism's rise, the hidden electoral power of the Muslim Brotherhood poses a mortal threat to the regime and its strategic alliance with the West.
Even President Barack Obama, of whom miracles were expected, turns out to be no more than a very talented mortal.
Around mid-August, as Trump's poll numbers rose even after public statements that would have brought down mere mortal candidates, it dawned on the pundits that he was no summer infatuation.
The idea that markets are self-regulating received a mortal blow in the recent financial crisis and should be buried once and for all.
Worse, our fragile democracy risks falling victim to extremists who pose a mortal danger not just to Syria, but to the wider Middle East and the world.
Pakistan's macabre association with the Taliban stems mostly from its constant effort to pressure its mortal enemy, India.
And yet, in fighting for their lives against the Islamic State, the Kurds have won new legitimacy; once the fighting has ended, they will not simply forget their national ambitions - or the mortal threat they faced.
Europe, for him, is a simply a practical and geographic reality -- neither a shining vision nor a mortal threat.
Last month, parliamentary elections dealt a mortal blow to Tudjmans' monolithic party, HDZ.

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