elemental

Example Sentences

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The logic is elemental, though the reality is more complex.

From Barron's • Apr. 29, 2026

Along the way, it also revealed something elemental about business success.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 21, 2026

Back in Cirencester, Dr David O'Connor showed me a new kind of "elemental microscope" that can be used to identify traces of dangerous elements in soil.

From BBC • Mar. 13, 2026

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

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 25, 2026

But lying above the center that pulled him down closer felt more familiar to him than any embrace he could remember; and he was sinking into the elemental arms of mountain silence.

From "Ceremony:" by Leslie Marmon Silko