Example sentences for: primal

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

  • According to femaleism, ancient women hunted along with their male mates, the clitoris is anatomically superior to the penis, and menstruation is an expression of "primal female power."

  • According to Freud's "myth of the origin of civilization," the primal father must be destroyed for society to survive (though Clinton might then be reborn as the repentant son).

  • Now that the bipolar order of the Cold War is gone, we're told, the primal bonds of ethnicity, language, and religion will be a central--if not the central--organizing principle in world affairs.

  • 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.

  • Janis Joplin invents primal screaming and Jimi Hendrix a kind of vatic solipsism.


How many words do you know? Try our free vocabulary size test!


Search

Search for example sentences

Loading Loading...
Quantcast