Mortal in example sentence

The totalitarian state portrayed in the film gleefully broadcasts the executions of undesirables (1300 in 6 hours one time, if I remember correctly) such as, in the case we get to see, a man who has committed the mortal sin of being a librarian.

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Freud said, look, there's much more to it than speech: "No mortal can keep a secret.

During the time I was in Bosnia, the mortal remains of Zumra's eldest son were exhumed from a mass grave.

They're going to survive as long as our species survives on what Shakespeare called "this mortal coil."

I'm already beyond the lifespan of most hunter-gatherers, and the outcome of a mortal combat between me myopically stumbling around with a stone-tipped spear and an enraged giant aurochs isn't very hard to predict.

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