How to Use nonhuman in a Sentence

nonhuman

adjective

• In short, all nonhuman life is there.
  — Anthony Lane, New Yorker, 8 May 2026
• They will always be seen as nonhuman objects.
  — Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 16 Jan. 2026
• Some parrot species, in fact, can attain feats equal to those of nonhuman primates.
  — Onur Güntürkün, Scientific American, 1 Jan. 2020
• Humans get a head-start over nonhuman spirits or creatures called yaoguai.
  — Jennifer Zhan, Vulture, 22 Aug. 2025
• The concept had never been found in nonhuman species — until now.
  — Saul Elbein, The Hill, 3 Apr. 2025
• Not long ago, the idea that any nonhuman animal deserved moral concern would have seemed very strange.
  — WIRED, 27 June 2023
• But sometimes the leap is from a nonhuman critter into a human.
  — David Quammen, Popular Science, 15 Oct. 2012
• The creatures, which look like scaly anteaters, are the most trafficked nonhuman animals in the world.
  — Marc Santora, New York Times, 23 Nov. 2019
• How are nonhuman conceptions of time, such as moss time, connected to justice?
  — Hazlitt, 8 Mar. 2023
• If not, researchers may need to begin with nonhuman studies, Hubbard said.
  — Kaitlin Sullivan, NBC News, 13 Dec. 2023
• By gnawing away at the old view that nonhuman animals simply serve as food, such work can counter anthropogenic views of the past.
  — Paige Madison, Discover Magazine, 18 Dec. 2023
• Take steps to lessen the potential impact on the victims of error—human and nonhuman.
  — Taylor Dotson, Scientific American, 10 July 2026
• Before too long, my human boyfriend would return, discover the nonhuman parts inside of me, and storm off.
  — As Told To James Factora, Them, 10 Oct. 2024
• The motif of changelings—of fairies taking a human child and leaving a nonhuman child in its place—comes up throughout the story.
  — Deborah Treisman, New Yorker, 18 May 2025
• Comparing Ata's genome to the genomes of a chimpanzee and monkey ruled out a nonhuman origin.
  — Ben Guarino, chicagotribune.com, 22 Mar. 2018
• Comparing Ata’s genome to the genomes of a chimpanzee and monkey ruled out a nonhuman origin.
  — Ben Guarino, BostonGlobe.com, 23 Mar. 2018
• Macaques are one of three modern nonhuman primate species that use stone tools (the other two are chimpanzees and capuchin monkeys).
  — Zach Zorich, Scientific American, 10 Mar. 2023
• Billye reminds us that there is a vast array of nonhuman life that is worthy of emulation.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 19 Oct. 2019
• Supply chains are often talked about in nonhuman corporate terms, but they are made up of people whose livelihoods depend on them.
  — 1000 Landscapes For 1 Billion People, Forbes, 1 Mar. 2024
• And workers in many fields fear that AI – or robots, or other nonhuman hands – might sweep in to replace them.
  — Daniel De Visé, USA Today, 18 May 2025
• Copyright law wasn’t designed to reach nonhuman actors, Howell said.
  — Winston Cho, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 Aug. 2023
• The fact that there has been recovery of technology of nonhuman origin.
  — Selome Hailu, Variety, 9 Mar. 2025
• One crafty bird species may be the latest example of social learning in nonhuman animals.
  — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 14 Nov. 2024
• Yet among nonhuman animals, the creatures that cause more American deaths than any other are bees and wasps.
  — N'dea Yancey-Bragg, USA TODAY, 4 May 2020
• Lake points out that these quirks don’t align with the kinds of words children learn most quickly, which suggests the model has nonhuman idiosyncrasies.
  — Lauren Leffer, Scientific American, 1 Feb. 2024
• One study was a genetic analysis conducted in nonhuman primates, but the rest were based on humans.
  — Kaitlin Sullivan, NBC News, 29 Mar. 2023
• The frontal lobe occupies about 40% of the brain, was the last to evolve, and is much larger than that of our nonhuman primate relatives.
  — Anand Kumar, STAT, 21 Apr. 2026
• Many cultures around the world have long thought of nonhuman animals as having something like consciousness; some even presume plants have it, too.
  — Emma Gometz, Scientific American, 15 May 2026
• In doing so, the monkeys became the first of their genus and the fourth of all nonhuman primates to enter the Stone Age, so to speak.
  — Meilan Solly, Smithsonian, 13 July 2018
• Who knows, maybe in a few years’ time a nonhuman participant will take part in the IMO for the first time—and maybe even win gold.
  — Manon Bischoff, Scientific American, 17 Jan. 2024