Example sentences for: primeval

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

  • To be sure, there is nothing to justify the assumption that the names of the numbers emerged in numerical order from the primeval ooze of language; but one might mistakenly conclude that the very first ordinal to be talked about in English was eightieth , and this at a time when only a small percentage of the population had a life expectancy of half that.

  • Legend has it that as Vishnu floated partly submerged in the primeval ocean, a lotus grew out of his navel, issuing Brahma, whose sole task was to create the world.

  • Reasoning backward, he proposed that at some definite point in the past it must have originated from a primeval atom of infinitely concentrated energy.

  • Off the beaten track, you’ll steep yourself in the atmosphere of a truly primeval forest.

  • Vishnu, for example, can be Narayan, floating on the primeval ocean or lying on a bed of snakes.


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