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US
/hjuˈmeɪnɫi/
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[ UK /hjuːmˈeɪnli/ ]
[ UK /hjuːmˈeɪnli/ ]
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in a humane manner
let's treat the prisoners of war humanely
How To Use humanely In A Sentence
- In the United States, critically injured racehorses are humanely euthanized by lethal injection.
- You should communicate bad news clearly, fairly, and humanely.
- To avoid the stress of transportation, the turkeys will be humanely slaughtered on the farm.
- The only place to remove them to humanely is the countryside. Archive 2007-10-28
- It is not acceptable to announce repeatedly to the world that we don't torture, that we abide by all our treaty obligations, and that we treat detainees "humanely" -- only to engage in secret waterboarding and hypothermia, based on equally secret legal determinations that construe the words "torture" and "humane" in an Orwellian fashion, that diminish treaty obligations down to nothing, and that assert a right of the President to ignore all statutory limits. Balkinization
- Slaves held in bondage are forced into labor and too often treated inhumanely.
- In Norway, it is illegal to shoot seal whelps, instead, they must be humanely, and with one blow, "clubbed" to death. Donald where's yer sporran?
- But when they are in our custody, when they are defenseless, it is a mark of Western civilization that we treat them humanely.
- How would you like to be treated "humanely" while locked up for years w/o charges? Heather Robinson: NYC Trial Of High-level Terror Masterminds Will Violate Civil Liberties -- Of Americans
- All his life Nelson was profoundly aware of the drudgery of toil, whether on the furrow or the lower deck, and humanely responsive to the concerns of the least privileged.