elemental

Example Sentences

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Earlier studies on Rapa Nui relied on indicators such as pollen, plant remains, elemental chemistry, and how quickly sediments built up to infer past environmental changes.

From Science Daily

While apart, their working lives — his at sea, hers on land — speak to a confluence of the elemental and the man-made.

From Los Angeles Times

I felt as though I were caught in a different dimension where death was as present as life, and everything was elemental and terrifying.

From Literature

Voting is the most elemental of democratic exercises, a virtuous act residing right up there alongside motherhood and apple pie.

From Los Angeles Times

No, it was something a little more elemental.

From Salon