Sentence examples for held a human from inspiring English sources

I remember the moment I held a human brain in my hands for the first time.

("I was 19 years old when I first held a human brain," we are told in the book's opening, arresting sentence).

Mr. Feather cleared a stack of canvases from a third chair that, I imagined, had not held a human behind since he took up residence in Suite 105, and settled himself, looking composed, relaxed, not in the least apprehensive or, to be honest, especially interested in what I had to say.

The United States also held a human rights dialogue with the Chinese in 1999 but the Chinese canceled the dialogue for 2000 -- a visit by Chinese officials to meet with administration officials -- after the bombing of their Belgrade embassy in the Kosovo war.

He thought of his students as sensitive animals and held a human-among-humans attitude with them.

This week another headless body was found north of the capital next to a sack holding a human head.

Other reminders of a terrible time include a Mayan with a plastic colander that holds a human skull exhumed at a site where the "disappeared" were buried.

The Remains of the Day does that most wonderful thing a work of literature can do: it makes you feel you hold a human life in your hands.

But then the woman turned back to me: she was holding a human larva strapped into a carrier, which she laid on the table.

I know this sounds like hyperbole, but today I went at Stig-like speeds around an elevated parking lot in a self-driving car and saw a man hold a human kidney.

Following a link in the video will lead to a tour of a fetid red-light district and a shot of a young soldier holding a human heart aloft before eating it.