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Example sentences for "primal"

Lexicographically close words:
prim; prima; primacy; primae; primaeval; primam; primaria; primaries; primarily; primary
  1. VX-1, which slowly began discharging a concentrated plume out of its nozzles, a primal green instead of the usual reds and oranges of a conventional rocket.

  2. And as Hans moved in, that hesitation proved to be a profound, primal mistake.

  3. Right save by love no thought can be or may; Only love's knowledge is the primal light.

  4. But cliffs, unaltered from their primal form Since the subsiding of the deluge, rise And hold their savins to the upper storm, While far below the skiff securely plies.

  5. Sweet spot, by Nature’s primal consecration Sacred to peace and thought and calm repose, Well in thy breast that elder generation Their place of burial chose.

  6. Sometimes those airy flights of notes seemed to stimulate in some incomprehensible way the deepest emotions of the human spirit; not indeed the intellectual and moral emotions, but the primal and elemental desires and woes of the heart.

  7. Hugh was inclined to believe in the necessity to happiness of the observance of some primal laws, like the law of labour, but here was a contradiction to all his theories.

  8. I used to believe, in the far-off days of peace, that men had lost their old primal love for dangerous sport, their native ignorance of fear.

  9. The start was made when man gave attention to the primal curse of the race recorded in the book of Genesis: "By the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, until thou return to the ground.

  10. The primal age Was beautiful as gold; and hunger then Made acorns tasteful, thirst each rivulet Run nectar.

  11. This argument appears to take for granted that the conception of primal ancestral spirits, perpetually reincarnated, is primitive.

  12. And, to say the truth, the number is smaller than even Nature-worshippers themselves are aware--those in whom there is not that warring of these two great primal instincts.

  13. All the planting and reaping of the farmers is suggestive of our animal wants, as is so much of our whole industrial activity; but art looks kindly upon much of it, shows us more or less in partnership with primal energies.

  14. In this case, we must substitute for the energy of my arm the cosmic energy that gives the primal impetus to all heavenly bodies.

  15. It was such a search in no other sense than that we are all in search of the doctor when we take a walk, or flee to the mountains or to the seashore, or seek to bring our minds and spirits in contact with "Nature's primal sanities.

  16. There is no man, this deifying day, But feels the primal blessing in his blood.

  17. Grant Chalybon perish the whole of the race, Eke who in primal times ore seeking under the surface Showed th' example, and spalled iron however so hard.

  18. As it is certain that the garden was planted by intelligence, would not the sudden and complete eradication of evil repeal a primal law of the all-understanding Gardener?

  19. Not a single church has denied these degrading theories; no clergyman has preached against the doctrines mentioned, blasphemous as they are against the primal rights of the soul.

  20. Science now declares crime to be a disease, but it has not yet discovered the primal cause of this disease.

  21. Paul, brought up in the strictest external principles of Judaism, did not lose his educational bias or primal belief when changing from Judaism to Christianity.

  22. In the Ritualistic Episcopal Church are to be found monks and sisterhoods upon the celibate plan, confessors and penance, all of them primal elements in moral and spiritual degradation.

  23. Its teachings that belief was dependent upon knowledge, attacked the primal church tenet, that belief depends upon faith alone.

  24. Here the primal idea of the family had birth.

  25. The earliest phase of life being dependent upon her, she was recognized as the primal factor in every relation,[4] man holding no place but that of dependent.

  26. Monogamous family life did not exist, but a polygamy whose primal object was the formation of a clan possessing hereditary chiefs ruling aristocratically.

  27. As far as he has examined this question, Lecky is correct, but he has failed to touch the primal cause of such laws and systems--the church doctrine of woman's created inferiority to man.

  28. The androgynous theory of primal man found many supporters, the separation into two beings having been brought about by sensual desire.

  29. The daily press, in its minute record of events, all unwittingly furnishes many a little item, whose primal reason only the student of history can read.

  30. Justice as the foundation of the highest law, is a primal requirement of the individual to the self.

  31. It was primal Indian law that upon the death of the husband the wife should heir all his property.

  32. The Celtæ, we have seen reason to believe, are by no means to be regarded as the primal heirs of the land, but are on the contrary comparatively recent intruders.

  33. It is a question of gratifying this deep and primal instinct as against the weakness of his mentality and the few barriers that a meagre education and picked-up habits can furnish; and when the instinct overbalances he is lost.

  34. If he acts, it is one of the primal emotions that causes the act.

  35. The primal things that preserve the race, the hunger for food, drink, sex, are instinctive and not only are not awakened or satisfied by reason, but oftentimes in violation of it.

  36. And when the day was done, so well had every duty been performed, right willingly the squire did grant him grace, and forthwith Ederyn sped upon his mission.

  37. I don't want to have anything more to do with either of you.

  38. We've been playmates since we were babies.

  39. Lloyd and Kitty leaned lazily back against the mossy trunk, and Allison, with her arms around her knees, gazed dreamily across the river.

  40. Underneath was the gruesome legend, "Dead men tell no tales.

  41. Juliet Lynn, quickly establishing herself in her last year's quarters, started down the corridor to announce at every door that she was the first one unpacked and settled.

  42. It's out of the question, Maud, for us to accept such an invitation.

  43. I can make the rhymes, but the lines limp too dreadfully for any use.

  44. That's the excursion I missed last year when I sprained my ankle.

  45. I'm very sure she has no cause to be angry with us.

  46. Thou hast devoured mammoth and mastodon, And many a floating bank of fangs, The scaly scourges of thy primal brine, And the tower-crested plesiosaure.

  47. Footnote 74: Protyle is the term adopted by Mr. Crookes to designate the original primal matter existing before the evolution of the chemical elements, and out of which they were evolved.

  48. For all that we know—and, indeed, as the conclusion from all that we know—primal matter began its progressive changes on the morning of its existence.

  49. Now, the idea obviously suggests itself that the whole growth of the solar system, from its primal condition to its present state, may have been due to processes resembling those which we now see taking place within its bounds.

  50. They and their kind were our pioneers, our empire builders; for when a cowman pushed into some primal valley and possessed it with his herd, his ranch became an outpost on our frontier.

  51. On a primal trace, like the Texas and Montana cattle trail, every benefit to the herd was sought, and the freshened range and running water were a welcome breeze to the drover's sail.

  52. It is a blind philosophy which professes to see in primal atoms the "promise and potency of mind," and which fails to perceive that such potency is more inconceivable than the evidence of primary and supreme mind.

  53. Has love, the primal mover of all things, no hold upon thee?

  54. These Tabernacles of Holiness, these primal Mirrors which reflect the Light of unfading glory, are but expressions of Him Who is the Invisible of the Invisibles.

  55. I am one of the sustaining pillars of the Primal Word of God.

  56. Lo, as the years are fleeting, With their burden of toil and pain, We know that the page Of that primal age Will be opened up once again.


  57. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "primal" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    aboriginal; ancient; arch; atavistic; austere; autochthonous; banner; bare; basal; basic; beginning; bodily; born; budding; capital; central; champion; chaste; chief; coeval; congenital; connate; constituent; constitutional; creation; crowning; crucial; dominant; early; elemental; elementary; embryonic; essential; fetal; first; focal; foremost; formative; fundamental; generative; genetic; germinal; great; gut; headmost; hereditary; homely; homespun; homogeneous; inaugural; inborn; inbred; incarnate; inceptive; inchoate; incipient; indigenous; indivisible; infant; infantile; inherited; initial; initiative; initiatory; innate; instinctive; introductory; inventive; irreducible; leading; magisterial; main; master; material; mere; monolithic; nascent; native; natural; organic; original; overruling; paramount; parturient; physical; plain; predominant; preeminent; pregnant; prehistoric; prenatal; preponderant; prevailing; primal; primary; prime; primeval; primitive; primordial; principal; pristine; procreative; pure; radical; ranking; rudimentary; ruling; seminal; severe; simple; single; sovereign; spare; star; stellar; substantial; substantive; supereminent; temperamental; unadorned; underlying; undifferentiated; uniform