How to Use elemental in a Sentence

elemental

1 of 2 adjective

• Their elemental passion led to tragedy.
• Few things are more elemental than food.
  — Annie Levin, Washington Post, 10 Feb. 2026
• One thing to note is that the amount of elemental iron varies among the different forms of iron.
  — Casey Seiden, Parents, 26 Feb. 2024
• While hominy and broth are the elemental parts of pozole, the dish can be made in a number of ways.
  — Paul Stephen, San Antonio Express-News, 3 Nov. 2021
• The point of this exercise was a form of elemental sleuthing.
  — Gregory Barber, WIRED, 29 Aug. 2022
• Strong shoulders, leather, metals, and a dash of heat bring your elemental spark to life.
  — Meghan Rose, Glamour, 22 Nov. 2025
• This fact remains, the elemental source of all of his problems that is not going away.
  — Tom McTague, The Atlantic, 6 June 2022
• Such episodes threatened civic life in a most elemental fashion.
  — Michael Powell, The Atlantic, 11 Feb. 2026
• Perraut would visit her mother's lab as a kid and see those elemental parts of the body up close.
  — Gili Malinsky zachary Green, CNBC, 16 Sep. 2025
• These are movies that use their elemental trickiness to put us in touch with our wide-eyed inner child.
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 7 Sep. 2025
• The style of chili is simply elemental to those who grew up around the Bearcat program.
  — Michael Casagrande | [email protected], al, 30 Dec. 2021
• From Sardinia comes this elemental pasta with a true taste of the sea.
  — Victoria Spencer, Martha Stewart, 21 Apr. 2026
• Beyond the specifics, though, the story has an elemental pull.
  — Daniel D'addario, Variety, 3 Feb. 2026
• While all four forms of iron are well-absorbed, some offer more elemental iron than others.
  — Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 12 Oct. 2022
• And, at its most elemental, South Park is founded on a sight gag with legs.
  — Chris Norris, SPIN, 13 Aug. 2022
• That is roughly the same amount of (elemental) sulfur as Pinatubo but with no change.
  — Erik Klemetti, Discover Magazine, 27 Apr. 2023
• Two of the most elemental desires humans possess are the need to be cared for and the need to be needed.
  — Randy Myers, Mercury News, 8 July 2026
• At the same time, there’s something thrillingly elemental about the tush push—and something smart about it, too.
  — Louisa Thomas, The New Yorker, 28 Oct. 2023
• Those are just some of the hits of the elemental soul/pop group Earth, Wind & Fire.
  — Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 29 July 2022
• Richards channeled his jealousy into an elemental fury of a song.
  — René Ostberg, Encyclopedia Britannica, 8 July 2026
• In this town, design is elemental.
  — Skylar Mitchell, Essence, 5 Aug. 2025
• How might that change our view of who and what is elemental to Los Angeles?
  — Daniel Drake, The New York Review of Books, 7 May 2022
• Then, as the universe cooled, light that was trapped in the elemental plasma fog finally broke free.
  — Quanta Magazine, 19 Jan. 2024
• Hot places, noisy places; places of human genius and elemental danger.
  — Jason Farago, New York Times, 7 Apr. 2022
• For his part, the frontman can’t put a finger on the secret to why his songs tend to touch fans on such an elemental level.
  — Glenn Rowley, Billboard, 12 Dec. 2022
• Its movement still stirs something elemental, equal parts comfort and awe.
  — Spencer Elliott, Forbes.com, 6 June 2026
• Not even the raging hearts of the most massive stars are capable of this feat of elemental alchemy.
  — Robert Lea, Space.com, 4 Feb. 2026
• The elemental ratio, the scientists say, is a peek into the past.
  — Christian Thorsberg, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 Feb. 2024
• The hatred is a reminder that, for Ukrainians, this war is elemental.
  — Robert F. Worth, The Atlantic, 7 Oct. 2025
• And yet what emerges from this elemental minorness is an art form with its own significance.
  — Naomi Fry, New Yorker, 14 Mar. 2026

elemental

2 of 2 noun

• This is some of the most elemental, in-the-red music ever recorded.
  — Daniel Bromfield, Pitchfork, 9 Feb. 2026
• While apart, their working lives — his at sea, hers on land — speak to a confluence of the elemental and the man-made.
  — Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times, 6 Feb. 2026
• And yet what emerges from this elemental minorness is an art form with its own significance.
  — Naomi Fry, New Yorker, 14 Mar. 2026
• And the entire elemental well mod system is based around that, and continues to expand.
  — Paul Tassi, Forbes, 31 Aug. 2021
• Both are smaller than later pieces by the artists and are made of materials that give them an aura of the elemental.
  — Lee Cullum, Dallas News, 17 Mar. 2023
• The shop’s benchmark became its croissant, that most elemental of all French pastries.
  — Jordan Michelman, San Francisco Chronicle, 22 Dec. 2022
• The drama’s elemental, in short, and so my few misgivings had to do with those times when the scaffolding of cause and effect got in the way.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 9 July 2021
• Meanwhile, Audra is a 17-year-old air elemental, who holds special power over the wind.
  — Carly Tagen-Dye, PEOPLE, 13 May 2026
• Geissinger, Sniffin and Bleckmann each added something new and elemental.
  — Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times, 2 Sep. 2023
• No fancy equipment is required to succeed in this most elemental of athletic pursuits.
  — Martin Fritz Huber, Outside Online, 29 Nov. 2021
• At its most elemental, Black History Month is about seeing the nation in full.
  — Adam Harris, The Atlantic, 19 Feb. 2026
• In future research, the plan is to introduce specific atoms to the carbon nanotubes for elemental doping.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 22 Sep. 2015
• These formulations contain elemental iron that is easily absorbed by the body.
  — Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 5 Aug. 2023
• Raw and elemental, sauna-goers alternate between the extremes.
  — Frankie Adkins, Condé Nast Traveler, 28 July 2023
• Tension is elemental on college football game days so banishing dissenting voices to the next solar system kills that.
  — Michael Casagrande | [email protected], al, 7 Sep. 2023
• Players have to create teams that exploit a boss’ weakness in order to defeat them, and that means building up characters that have the right elemental affinities.
  — Gieson Cacho, Mercury News, 16 Mar. 2026
• Fantasy, at its most elemental, is about possibility—the possibility of what can and should be—in service of truth.
  — Jason Parham, Wired, 2 Mar. 2021
• Nostalgia is built into us, even more apt to be triggered by the elemental senses—smell and taste and touch—than by the sights and sounds out of which those revivals of fashion and music are constructed.
  — Thomas Mallon, The New Yorker, 20 Nov. 2023
• In an age of algorithmic din, Feldman’s appeal lies in his unhurried, monkish devotion to the elementals of sound.
  — Alex Ross, New Yorker, 26 Jan. 2026
• So, each stone's unique elemental structure – such as the presence of (or lack thereof) iron, titanium or chromium – contributes to its coloring.
  — Olivia Munson, USA TODAY, 10 Aug. 2023
• All of this is to say that Dead Island 2’s crafting, weapon and elemental damage systems work together fairly neatly.
  — Kris Holt, Forbes, 18 Apr. 2023
• Tonight, the story of an American company confronting this elemental crisis.
  — Jon Wertheim, CBS News, 22 Mar. 2026
• Executing these balletic combos drawing from six different elemental Eikons while juggling opponents in midair is a dance like no other.
  — Joshua Khan, Rolling Stone, 22 June 2023
• Actually bringing these characters to life with the appropriate elemental bending was the challenge.
  — EW.com, 29 Jan. 2024
• Katsoupis calls into question the overly inflated value of art while reminding us that expression is inherently human and elemental.
  — Katie Walsh, Los Angeles Times, 16 Mar. 2023
• And after painstakingly disentangling the various wavelengths of light emitted by the ghost, the scientists unveiled its elemental makeup.
  — Robin George Andrews, New York Times, 12 Dec. 2023
• The most elemental of all the 718 Boxster series, the Spyder takes things to a minimalist extreme, notably with a soft top meant to be raised as little as possible.
  — Robert Ross, Robb Report, 22 June 2021
• Her abstract, elemental style, inspired by such European modernists as the sculptor Constantin Brancusi, seemed old world, even academic.
  — Alex Traub, New York Times, 29 Dec. 2023
• Consisting of only water, salt, yeast and highly refined wheat flour, Neapolitan dough is the most elemental of all formulas, but the apparent simplicity hides a great complexity.
  — Francesco Lastrucci, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 Feb. 2021
• Not surprisingly, the aesthetic Adams fashioned in this austere crucible prizes the elemental in music, but does so without retreating into a cave of unthinking primitivism.
  — Jeremy Eichler, BostonGlobe.com, 12 July 2015