How to Use primal in a Sentence

primal

adjective

• Cawley let out a primal scream and dropped to the floor, sobbing.
  — Anna Almendrala, Los Angeles Times, 11 Mar. 2021
• Even more impressive may have been his primal roar from the bench afterwards.
  — Mike Mazzeo, Forbes, 20 Mar. 2021
• Smells also serve as a primal alarm system alerting humans to dangers in our environment, like fires or gas leaks.
  — New York Times, 2 Jan. 2021
• Venus in Scorpio is serving primal, raw and unfiltered sensual desires, as well as an appetite for love.
  — Lisa Stardust, refinery29.com, 23 Sep. 2024
• The impulse could be primal; after all, cinema borrowed its dramatic structure from theater.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 18 Mar. 2021
• His characters are seized by desire and driven to distraction by it—and that distraction is, in his cinematic world view, a primal danger.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 24 Mar. 2021
• But that primal urge to be among people — or at least have them within socially distant sight — manifested itself in less-obvious settings as well.
  — John King, SFChronicle.com, 1 Jan. 2021
• But when these utter novices tap into that weird, primal thing that is artistic expression, the movie soars into a blazing display of the power of music to transcend and transform.
  — Michael Ordoña, Los Angeles Times, 25 Jan. 2021
• There’s something primal about leaving one’s mark on a monument, and some designers treat that impulse as a form of participation rather than vandalism.
  — Justin Davidson, Curbed, 15 Mar. 2021
• It's designed to invoke your most primal desires—whether that's for an exquisite gaming chair, an affordable laptop, or just a machine to squirt out single servings of delicious fro-yo.
  — Adrienne So, Wired, 14 Jan. 2021
• Ramsay’s amazing skill with editing and sound design is balanced by Phoenix’s instinctual, almost primal performance.
  — Brian Tallerico, Vulture, 16 Jan. 2021
• The choreography is open-ended and primal, and important for how the piece is conceived, designed, implemented and experienced.
  — Sydney Skybetter, Wired, 7 Feb. 2021
• Bored, restless, and annoyed by the hubbub around her, Yasmin retreats to her cabin, where she is confronted by a coital scene that is almost immediately revealed to be primal.
  — Naomi Fry, The New Yorker, 30 Sep. 2024
• And at the end of the chorus, that whole primal sing-yell thing came out.
  — Chris Willman, Variety, 18 Sep. 2022
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Blue Origin’s is slow and steady, while SpaceX’s is more of a primal scream.
  — Marina Koren, The Atlantic, 28 Apr. 2021
• 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
• 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
• 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

Last Updated: 26 Oct 2024