Example sentences for: primal

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

  • In form, it's a showbizzy patter song, but because of its lightning tempo (which makes the words barely intelligible) and the steady repetition of "bitch" on the downbeat, it has the primal force of an incantation:

  • The Rig Veda--a Hindu hymnal--describes creation through the gods' sacrifice of Purusa, the primal man.

  • Here too is the western entrance to Nara Park, marking the boundary between urban sprawl and primal forest.

  • Beauty is as central a preoccupation as ever, if anything more so, but the preoccupation has much more of a narcissistic, self-pampering quality and less of a desperation to make up for some irrecoverable, primal imperfection.

  • 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!


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