Examples of subhuman in a Sentence

Adjective The prisoners suffered subhuman treatment. years of grinding poverty that had reduced them to a subhuman existence

Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective At the same time, a loop seemed to start playing in my mind, with hundreds of voices from my past telling me that transgender people were subhuman. — Lara Americo, New York Times, 15 Apr. 2020 Even more a part of this notion is the assumption that journalists, reporters, and editors are subhuman and expected to be on the periphery of the human experience. — Sara Li, Teen Vogue, 6 Mar. 2020 But did Americans really need to hear these words to know that Trump considers immigrants and brown people to be subhuman? — Catherine Rampell, The Denver Post, 22 July 2019 Derogatory language — where protesters term officers dogs and gangsters, and police call demonstrators subhuman and cockroaches — has become a hallmark of Hong Kong’s protests as clashes have escalated. — Washington Post, 4 Nov. 2019 All around her, in the heart of Hollywood, people were living in subhuman conditions, sprawled beside storefronts and at bus stops. — Steve Lopezcolumnist, Los Angeles Times, 4 Oct. 2019 Not long after Hefzur Rahman enrolled at his new school in Michigan three years ago, his fifth-grade class studied the subhuman conditions that enslaved Africans endured in overcrowded ships bound for North America. — Miriam Jordan, New York Times, 22 Sep. 2019 Africans were enslaved because of their low cost, subhuman status, and agricultural skills, Williams-Forson said. — Lateshia Beachum, Washington Post, 24 Aug. 2019 It has been used by politicians to insult former first lady Michelle Obama, by U.S. presidents to criticize U.N. delegates and by the founders of modern political thought to term people with black skin as subhuman. — Katie Mettler, Washington Post, 27 Aug. 2019 Recent Examples on the Web: Noun Only this farm belongs to Frank’s brother (David Andrew Nash), who exists only to make the point that today’s immigrant workers are also treated as subhuman. — Amy Nicholson, Variety, 23 Jan. 2022 That assessment hit the newsstands one day after New York state troopers and other authorities gunned down 39 men in the facility’s main yard, terminating a five-day uprising ignited by subhuman, racist conditions. — Washington Post, 6 Oct. 2021 In their eyes, the Eldians are a stand-in for white people in Western countries, punished for the crimes of their ancestors’ empires and besieged by subhuman monsters trying to enter their land. — Shaan Amin, The New Republic, 16 Nov. 2020 Both Armenia and Azerbaijan have marshaled musicians, Twitter and Facebook partisans, officials and lobbyists to trumpet their cause and paint the other side as subhuman killers. — Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 10 Nov. 2020 These descriptions aligned with the treatment of Black people’s bodies during the slave trade, where they were deemed both subhuman and at the same time having superhuman strength. — USA Today, 1 Oct. 2020 The voyages were planned with conditions so indelibly subhuman that deportees would never again want to return to the United States. — Julia Preston, The New York Review of Books, 22 Sep. 2020 Classes at school did not teach me about the internment of Japanese-Americans, nor about all of the rest of the groups deemed subhuman. — TheWeek, 6 Aug. 2020 Criminalizing black men and deeming them subhuman, more akin to beasts in the field than white men, served to justify the brutality they were dealt, Yancy said. — Eliott C. Mclaughlin, CNN, 3 June 2020 See More

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