How to Use primal in a Sentence

primal

adjective

• And at the end of the chorus, that whole primal sing-yell thing came out.
  — Chris Willman, Variety, 18 Sep. 2022
• The sense of being at once hunter and prey feels primal.
  — Simon Parkin, The New Yorker, 17 Jan. 2023
• Lewis unleashed the saints and demons of primal rock ‘n’ roll.
  — Richard Corliss, Time, 28 Oct. 2022
• And to me, that was like such a primal description of him.
  — Alex Ritman, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 Nov. 2022
• Full moons are primal, to begin with, and Aries is ruled by Mars, the horny god of war.
  — Sophie Saint Thomas, Allure, 25 Apr. 2022
• When the win was secure, head coach Ben Brinkman turned to his bench and let out a primal scream.
  — Don Norcross, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Jan. 2024
• And yet, in the midst of futile attempts to grind out yardage on the ground, the game’s primal Cro-Magnon essence was fun to watch.
  — Gordon Monson, The Salt Lake Tribune, 11 Sep. 2022
• The whole movie, for me, is a bit of a primal scream against the carnival-like idiocy of the past six years.
  — David Sims, The Atlantic, 26 Dec. 2022
• The primal force of the fire draws pilgrims to the lips of the craters, and has drawn Weston around the world in chase of that initial eruption.
  — Nina MacLaughlin, BostonGlobe.com, 13 July 2023
• As a primal element of power, land has flowed from the weak to the strong for centuries.
  — Patrik Jonsson, The Christian Science Monitor, 3 Nov. 2023
• And the question of whether our obsession with it is as primal as thirst.
  — John Anderson, WSJ, 28 June 2022
• There’s something primal to having the controller in your hand and being in the world.
  — Todd Martensgame Critic, Los Angeles Times, 15 Jan. 2023
• The Children on the Hill takes us on a breathless journey to face the primal fears that lurk within us all.
  — Sarah Yang, Sunset Magazine, 23 Oct. 2023
• But the deeper throughline of The Stones and Brian Jones involves the primal wound of a prodigal son.
  — Sheri Linden, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 Nov. 2023
• The most abstract or general primal is the belief in a good (vs. bad) world.
  — Mark Travers, Forbes, 15 June 2022
• The garden enables the woman to remember her primal bond with the land.
  — Leo Barraclough, Variety, 7 Aug. 2023
• In the stands, the fans roared, their fear converted into a vaguely primal sound.
  — Rory Smith, New York Times, 9 Dec. 2022
• And what the algorithm has figured out is how to play to your primal instinct.
  — Alan Murray, Fortune, 5 May 2023
• This can trigger the primal human response of fight or flight.
  — Nadine Hack, Forbes, 12 Aug. 2022
• That scene is so ominous and primal because of the sounds and the music at that point, and just the way their bodies are moving was kind of dark.
  — Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 30 Nov. 2022
• Perhaps our love of crunch is an artifact of our primal selves.
  — Ligaya Mishan Esther Choi, New York Times, 8 May 2023
• Lady Bo Her primal rhythm playing with Bo Diddley danced along the borders of blues and rock.
  — Matt Wake | [e-mail], al, 27 Mar. 2022
• Pangs over Ukraine’s fate fuel a primal urge to stand with its defenders.
  — Suzanne Nossel, WSJ, 10 Mar. 2022
• The number of movies that fold in primal scenes of rapture at the cinema is beyond counting.
  — A.o. Scott, New York Times, 9 Oct. 2023
• At one point, Pi jumps through the stage into the water, and at another, meets a sea turtle that moves in some primal way that reads as wise.
  — Vulture, 30 Mar. 2023
• The contest, however, may end up coming down to who has the louder megaphone, and Covid amounts to an easy primal scream.
  — Philip Elliott, Time, 19 Dec. 2022
• After all, cooking over the open fire of a gas stove sparks something primal and intuitive in our lizard brains.
  — New York Times, 11 Mar. 2022
• The apps are marketing to our primal fear of disconnecting from our loved ones.
  — Amy Paturel, Wired, 29 Mar. 2022
• In the end, though, Joe’s primal urges got the better of him, and left him grappling with his inner demons more publicly than ever before.
  — Amy MacKelden, ELLE, 9 Mar. 2023
• Maybe they are pulled, toward or away from each other, by something primal.
  — Monica Hesse, Washington Post, 17 Aug. 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024