How to Use primal in a Sentence

primal

adjective

• And at the end of the chorus, that whole primal sing-yell thing came out.
  — Chris Willman, Variety, 18 Sep. 2022
• Murray fell to the ground and arose with a primal scream.
  — Mike Singer, The Denver Post, 15 Nov. 2019
• The sense of being at once hunter and prey feels primal.
  — Simon Parkin, The New Yorker, 17 Jan. 2023
• Lewis unleashed the saints and demons of primal rock ‘n’ roll.
  — Richard Corliss, Time, 28 Oct. 2022
• The senses of smell, touch and taste are our most primal.
  — Jeryl Brunner, Forbes, 31 Oct. 2024
• And to me, that was like such a primal description of him.
  — Alex Ritman, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 Nov. 2022
• Full moons are primal, to begin with, and Aries is ruled by Mars, the horny god of war.
  — Sophie Saint Thomas, Allure, 25 Apr. 2022
• On the way back to the city, Tiffan yelped in a primal scream—a cicada was on her knee.
  — Ross Kenneth Urken, Scientific American, 14 June 2021
• Sit in the sun with cold beer, and give in to your primal urge to Instagram.
  — Lauren Daley, BostonGlobe.com, 23 May 2018
• Both films argue for what a primal scene the Soul Train Awards were.
  — Wesley Morris, New York Times, 5 July 2018
• That’s when the crowd erupted while Woods pumped his fists and let out a primal scream.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 June 2021
• But there is something primal about the way humans look for a light in the dark.
  — Susanna Schrobsdorff, Time, 11 Sep. 2021
• When the win was secure, head coach Ben Brinkman turned to his bench and let out a primal scream.
  — Don Norcross, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Jan. 2024
• And yet, in the midst of futile attempts to grind out yardage on the ground, the game’s primal Cro-Magnon essence was fun to watch.
  — Gordon Monson, The Salt Lake Tribune, 11 Sep. 2022
• When the ball found the bottom of the net, DeRozan unleashed a primal scream of pure catharsis.
  — Jeff McDonald, San Antonio Express-News, 12 Apr. 2021
• Cawley let out a primal scream and dropped to the floor, sobbing.
  — Anna Almendrala, Los Angeles Times, 11 Mar. 2021
• Blue Origin’s is slow and steady, while SpaceX’s is more of a primal scream.
  — Marina Koren, The Atlantic, 28 Apr. 2021
• It’s both light and rich, with lime and salt but some oddly primal taste.
  — Eve Conant, Travel, 30 Dec. 2020
• And where the survivors—many of them, anyway—would go primal.
  — John Anderson, WSJ, 15 Dec. 2020
• Gerald Green leaped in the air and let out a fist-pumping primal scream.
  — Matt Young, Houston Chronicle, 23 May 2018
• The whole movie, for me, is a bit of a primal scream against the carnival-like idiocy of the past six years.
  — David Sims, The Atlantic, 26 Dec. 2022
• Though the food is primal (meats cooked over a live fire), the ambiance at Miller’s Guild is sleek and modern.
  — Jenna Scatena, Condé Nast Traveler, 21 May 2018
• The Lakers center then let out a primal yell, flexed and mean-mugged.
  — Broderick Turner Staff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 27 Apr. 2021
• The primal feel of the knife has unleashed something in Shauna.
  — Erin Qualey, Los Angeles Times, 9 Jan. 2022
• The primal force of the fire draws pilgrims to the lips of the craters, and has drawn Weston around the world in chase of that initial eruption.
  — Nina MacLaughlin, BostonGlobe.com, 13 July 2023
• And because of that, with this rethinking the idea of, What’s primal fear?
  — Stephen Schaefer, Boston Herald, 7 Nov. 2024
• As a primal element of power, land has flowed from the weak to the strong for centuries.
  — Patrik Jonsson, The Christian Science Monitor, 3 Nov. 2023
• The primal part of my brain started to scream that this was a good time to start panicking.
  — Chris Peterman, Ars Technica, 22 July 2018
• This film is a primal howl, a white-knuckle ride that explores the devastating fragility of the human condition.
  — Leo Barraclough, Variety, 5 Feb. 2025
• The pair watched each other so as not to overstep on a beat and engaged in a stylistic showdown mid-song – Copeland’s jazzier style teamed with Fleetwood’s more primal thumping – as the quartet made joyful noise.
  — Melissa Ruggieri, USA TODAY, 1 Feb. 2025