carnal
Example Sentences
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He told me, “Hey carnal, I’m going to invite you to be on my album.”
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 4, 2025
But for all his uses of food as a source of carnal provocation and capitalist fracturing, Bong also allows food to be the root of love and community.
From Salon • Mar. 25, 2025
Sovjani, whose influences include Wayne Theibaud’s carnal cake and pie paintings, transforms everyday objects into lush exercises in color and form.
From Washington Post • Oct. 28, 2022
But same-sex relationships are criminalised by a criminal code which Dr Adjepong calls "completely vague" - introduced by the British when they ruled Ghana - that mentions "unnatural carnal knowledge".
From BBC • Mar. 10, 2021
And though it is asserted that it was in the minds of the Lords Judges to modify this sentence and to add "for pretended carnal knowledge," yet it never was thus modified.
From The Old Yellow Book Source of Robert Browning's The Ring and the Book by Anonymous
Vocabulary lists containing carnal
"Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" by Jonathan Edwards
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Body Language: Carn ("Flesh")
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
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