mortal - use in sentences
Converse of object
- marry: The Lord Chancellor suggests that the law should be changed to " every fairy must die that doesn't marry a mortal " .
- lie: There in Plot number 340 lie the mortal remains of Michael Barrett.
- become: He didn't just become mortal, He died.
- help: Sir John saw his investment rapidly repaid many times over and he helped the talented young mortal expand his businesses.
- make: It would be enough to make lesser mortals crawl back to the day job.
Adjective modifier
- mere: For us mere mortals there is the team relays, these are staged over the sprint distance.
- lesser: All season they have managed to compete with just 3 players with us lesser mortals playing up to help out.
- ordinary: Many ordinary Catholic mortals don't have such an easy road.
- poor: Luckily for us poor mortals it has been ported to Windows.
- normal: Normal mortals can now skip to the end of these numbered paragraphs.
- most: But even so, just one of Boris ' several jobs would be enough to keep most ordinary mortals busy and out of mischief.
Modifies a noun
- coil: At least when you shuffle off your mortal coil, the coffin will only have two corners damaged.
- peril: In their mortal peril the Greeks turned to us for succor.
- sin: Now the infused virtue of love is lost through any mortal sin.
- flesh: Then came the swish of swift sharp spears seeking the mortal flesh of adversaries.
- danger: Putting the lives of your country's citizens in constant mortal danger?
- enemy: Also, scanning many megabytes of data looking for the right bits is not a job I'd wish on my mortal enemy.
Modifying Another Word
- not: The blow which had struck Michael Strogoff was not mortal.
Used with adjective complement
- become: Once endowed with its less than perfect Body, the Creation, we might say, became mortal.
Preposition: with
- immortality: For the perishable must clothe itself with the imperishable, and the mortal with immortality.
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