Another animal or person considered in relation to oneself.
I felt horrified that we could treat our fellow creatures in such ways
Example sentencesExamples
- I was brought up understanding that there were certain considerations to be extended to all fellow creatures.
- Any good, therefore, that I can do or any kindness that I can show to any fellow creature, let me do it now.
- The killing of fellow creatures of the earth should not be done in a spirit of festivity.
- If you've ever looked into the eyes of a chimp or gorilla there's no denying that lurch of recognition for a fellow creature capable of complex thoughts.
- And we all wonder at the people who could inflict so much suffering on fellow creatures.
- The company of one's fellow creatures was always the point of the public house.
- Factory farming has no rules, no codes of honor, no little decencies to spare for a fellow creature.
- It is the nature of humans to help their fellow creatures.
- Cows are innocent herbivores that would never knowingly consume the rendered remains of their fellow creatures.
- These teachers lack the very foundation of compassion: the ability to see their pupils as fellow creatures exactly like themselves.