Example sentences for: primal

How can you use “primal” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • I've always felt that a chief cause of racial strife is that on a primal, instinctive level, we distrust something new or different from what we know.

  • By initiating his glossolalic cant with beth -element words ( feemalator, wamalama ) and continuing with palatal variations on their respective themes ( jasperator, gamanama ) the boy is apparently responding to the same primal urge that motivated the anonymous creators of our alphabet to begin their artificial series of sounds with aleph, beth, gimel , and daleth --and not with something like zis boom bah!

  • Nature itself is the primal essence enshrined and worshipped at Ise, as implied by the carefully orchestrated approach to the sanctuaries past the limpid Isuzu River and through the forest.

  • Why do big-studio movies that celebrate wildness and primal man and equate civilization with corruption tend to play as if their plots have been hammered out by Hollywood executives on car phones?

  • White Heat features two of Cagney's greatest primal tantrums: in prison, when he finds out that his mother is dead and moans like a maniac; and at a chemical refinery, where he screams, "Top of the world, Ma!"


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