sentient creature

collocation in English

meaningsofsentientandcreature

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sentient
adjective
uk
/ˈsen.ti.ənt/us
/ˈsen.ʃənt/
able to ...
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creature
noun[C]
uk
/ˈkriː.tʃər/us
/ˈkriː.tʃɚ/
any large or small living thing that can ...
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(Definition ofsentientandcreaturefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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The perception and evalua- tion of difference is a basic function of everysentientcreature.
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He adds that the chronic pain suffered by many of them "must constitute the single most extreme example of man's inhumanity to anothersentientcreature".
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The life form is asentientcreaturethat survived the end and rebirth of the universe.
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The mist is asentientcreaturethat lives off the life energy of other creatures.
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All agents have reason to pursue the good (their own individual good, or the good of all sentient creatures) appropriately.
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Normative hedonists hold that all agents have reason to maximize pleasure, either their own or that of all sentient creatures.
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We see them not as a mass of unfeeling cells but as sentient creatures.
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My conclusions from the debate included the fact that animals are sentient creatures with an intrinsic value.
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We are talking about sentient creatures and have to adopt a different approach.
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We should instead be proceeding on the basis that what is at issue here are animals, that is to say sentient creatures.
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It would continue the acceptance in our law of human cruelty exercised to no necessary end and the acceptance of unnecessary cruelty by sentient creatures.
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They are sentient creatures which communicate through psionic sounds referred to as songs.
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They have four tentacles around a lamprey-like mouth, and require the brains of sentient creatures as part of their diet.
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He states they are the reason most sentient creatures have an instinctual fear of the dark.
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This planet is home to two species and four subspecies of sentient creatures of varying technology levels.
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After exiting through an emergency tunnel, they find themselves in a completely undamaged, semi-tropical region apparently uninhabited by humans or other sentient creatures.
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It also on occasion demonstrates an ability to communicate with other sentient creatures.
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The sequence of events (according to the most commonly held belief) is the annihilation of all creatures, resurrection of the body, and the judgment of all sentient creatures.
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Adventurers quickly have the opportunity to meet and befriend other sentient creatures, some of whom may be willing to journey with them and join their party.
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