carnal

Example Sentences

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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

Or, ‘Hey carnal, do I go along with the program?’

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 14, 2024

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

They provide a bridge between our carnal nature and their incorporeal institutions.

From New York Times • Aug. 6, 2021

Among the rigid, carnal matrimony was replaced by the spiritual union between the soul and God effected by the rite of Consolamentum.

From A History of The Inquisition of The Middle Ages; volume I by Lea, Henry Charles