How to Use primordial in a Sentence

primordial

adjective

• People come here for the views, the open space, the chance to see Earth at its most primordial.
  — Todd Plummer, Vogue, 20 Jan. 2023
• Meals that seem to reach back in time to scratch a nagging, primordial itch.
  — Los Angeles Times, 14 Sep. 2019
• Lo, Posh and Becks emerged, into the primordial celebrity whorl of the ’90s.
  — Matt Ortile, Condé Nast Traveler, 31 Oct. 2023
• Our sense of smell is the only one that has this direct link to the area of the brain that controls emotion, a primordial area of the brain.
  — Kara Baskin, BostonGlobe.com, 23 Dec. 2022
• There will be wacky, tacky characters, primordial wildlife at close range and run-ins with the law.
  — Ellen Morton, Washington Post, 5 July 2022
• The primordial evidence—the hides of Stone Age peoples—has long since turned to dust.
  — Paul Salopek, National Geographic, 2 Sep. 2020
• And then, as with many primordial myths, there is some body horror.
  — Kevin Purdy, Ars Technica, 21 May 2024
• For now, though, that crown rests solely on the tiny head of the primordial dragonfly.
  — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 24 Oct. 2022
• The price of bitcoin, crypto’s primordial coin, is down 50% since this time last year.
  — Scott Nover, Quartz, 13 Feb. 2023
• There’s that little primordial tickle at the base of your brain.
  — Tom Vanderbilt, Outside Online, 28 Feb. 2022
• Dense wrinkles in the primordial energies of the Big Bang?
  — New York Times, 12 May 2022
• One idea still in the running is that the missing matter is made of primordial black holes that formed soon after the big bang.
  — Clara Moskowitz, Scientific American, 18 Mar. 2021
• Jupiter runs hot Jupiter isn’t done cooling off from its primordial days.
  — Shi En Kim, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 May 2024
• Light filters through the giant trees bathing the ferns and mosses below in a primordial green glow.
  — NBC News, 28 July 2019
• The black holes could be primordial, having hung around since the maelstrom of the early universe before the first stars were born.
  — Daniel Clery, Science | AAAS, 2 Sep. 2020
• Yet how would this primordial gas have reached Earth’s surface?
  — Tom Metcalfe, Scientific American, 2 Dec. 2023
• But the most significant marathon in the world wasn't prominent during the primordial stages of the post-Floyd world.
  — Mike Freeman, USA TODAY, 2 Dec. 2020
• Pike shuts her eyes to keep the pigment out, and Redniss plunges us into a full page of primordial darkness.
  — Max Norman, The New Yorker, 23 July 2021
• In nature, they're formed from primordial germ cells and can be seen as precursors to egg cells.
  — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 21 Sep. 2018
• The tepid decision by the NFL shows that when money and power are at stake, the league reverts back to its more primordial form.
  — Mike Freeman, USA TODAY, 1 July 2021
• This is Damballah, the primordial creator of life in Haitian Vodou folklore.
  — Vulture, 7 Mar. 2023
• Time in the sun Before so much as the first microbe existed, there had to be amino acids thought to have formed in one of the primordial oozes of early Earth.
  — Elizabeth Rayne, Ars Technica, 22 May 2023
• Begin by restoring your desk to a more primordial state.
  — Nina Molina, WSJ, 5 May 2022
• The primordial solar nebula refers to the cloud of dust, ice and gas that the solar system was born within.
  — Jamie Carter, Forbes, 16 Feb. 2024
• There are good reasons to think that black holes in this size range must have been formed early in the universe and that these primordial black still fill the universe.
  — The Physics Arxiv Blog, Discover Magazine, 21 Dec. 2023
• But first, there is some primordial link between politicians and corn dogs.
  — The Christian Science Monitor, 9 Aug. 2019
• The laptop features artwork of Tiamat, one of the primordial gods.
  — Gordon Mah Ung, PCWorld, 13 Jan. 2021
• In Tolkien lore, the trees were the source of light for Valar until they were destroyed by Melkor (aka Morgoth) and a giant primordial spider.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 14 July 2022
• Glass contains silica, as do sand and certain types of clay that would have been present on primordial Earth.
  — Bymitch Leslie, science.org, 30 Oct. 2024
• For life to arise from Earth’s primordial ingredients, early cells needed some way to keep their contents from simply drifting away.
  — Bymitch Leslie, science.org, 30 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 22 Dec 2024