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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• And the question of whether our obsession with it is as primal as thirst.
  — John Anderson, WSJ, 28 June 2022
• There’s something primal to having the controller in your hand and being in the world.
  — Todd Martensgame Critic, Los Angeles Times, 15 Jan. 2023
• The Children on the Hill takes us on a breathless journey to face the primal fears that lurk within us all.
  — Sarah Yang, Sunset Magazine, 23 Oct. 2023
• But the deeper throughline of The Stones and Brian Jones involves the primal wound of a prodigal son.
  — Sheri Linden, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 Nov. 2023
• These fish are aged in giant primal cuts with the bones intact.
  — Joey Skladany, Southern Living, 30 July 2024
• Could the primal majesty of the area still be experienced?
  — Emily Pennington, Outside Online, 18 Nov. 2020
• This is a primal scream of a movie, as the pieces above and a number of other Don’t Look Up reviews make clear.
  — Andy Meek, BGR, 27 Dec. 2021
• In this story two primal beings, T’ala’as and Lilu, each sire a child.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 5 May 2021
• The primal Moon moves into earthy Taurus, grounding us in the physical realm.
  — Tarot.com, Sun Sentinel, 14 Nov. 2024

Last Updated: 25 Dec 2024