primal

Example Sentences

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The plotting doesn’t have any subterranean levels either, trusting solely in its primal display of sweat, hormones and heartbreak.

From Los Angeles Times

In Cohen-Solal’s account, French xenophobia, primal and entrenched, was a major shaper of Picasso’s biography, and it’s her tracing of it that makes her book distinctive.

From New York Times

Mothers are often the keepers of secrets, borne from a primal instinct for survival.

From Los Angeles Times

“It was such a sheer primal sense of terror.”

From New York Times

When faced with uncertainties, unknowns or other threats to our routines, our primal “fight or flight” instinct will kick in.

From Washington Post