elemental

Example Sentences

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“Tomato and egg is a culinary truth, one of those elemental pairings that shows up across cultures not because anyone decided it should, but because it just makes sense,” writes Salon’s Ashlie D. Stevens.

From Salon • Apr. 6, 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

Fire replaces water as the elemental character in James Cameron’s “Avatar: Fire and Ash.”

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 22, 2025

Future studies of their atmospheres and elemental compositions may pinpoint the regions of the disk where they originally formed, offering deeper insight into the origins and evolution of hot Jupiters.

From Science Daily • Dec. 15, 2025

Above all, it sounded like a live creature: some monstrous, elemental being, wailing its damnation.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White