How to Use primitive in a Sentence

primitive

1 of 2 adjective

• The camp had only a primitive outdoor toilet.
• The technology they used was primitive and outdated.
• The years pass, and soon enough, the pair are all grown up—but no less primitive.
  — David Sims, The Atlantic, 9 Feb. 2026
• This team has been stagnant and frankly primitive for a long time.
  — Stephen J. Nesbitt, New York Times, 30 Mar. 2026
• At the time, AI was still primitive.
  — Andrew R. Chow, Time, 6 May 2026
• This was a time when roads were primitive, and the need was to link cities with rural areas.
  — Dp Opinion, Denver Post, 25 Apr. 2026
• That meant that play was a primitive process and most likely vital to survival.
  — Big Think, 22 Oct. 2025
• That's primitive in my opinion.
  — Louis Casiano , Michael Ruiz , Julia Bonavita, FOXNews.com, 7 Sep. 2025
• Campsites The park has two primitive (no hookups) campsites—one in each of the two main units.
  — Julia Sayers Gokhale, Midwest Living, 1 June 2026
• Behind him was an aluminum boat and a million square miles of primitive wilderness.
  — Porter Fox, New York Times, 21 Oct. 2016
• Most subsea drones can only trade sparse, primitive status blips.
  — Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 1 June 2026
• There are 10 primitive sites for tents-only camping.
  — Aurora Beacon-News, Chicago Tribune, 23 Mar. 2026
• And they’ve been fed this doctrine called dirt thought, which is a kind of irrational, primitive, throwback idea.
  — Literary Hub, 13 Nov. 2025
• Initially, these are very primitive – buy coffee, take a photo of a receipt in a cafe.
  — Daria Tarasova-Markina, CNN Money, 11 Feb. 2026
• There are also several primitive campgrounds spaced out around the park.
  — Carrie Honaker, Travel + Leisure, 9 Nov. 2025
• There are also several primitive campgrounds spaced out around the park.
  — Carrie Honaker, Travel + Leisure, 3 Apr. 2026
• Take a boat to the primitive island of Palmarola, and swim near volcanic sea stacks.
  — Kristina Kasparian, Travel + Leisure, 15 Mar. 2026
• Will there be future fairy tales about birds whose feathers glow in the dark nesting in the ruins of primitive power plants of past ages?
  — Literary Hub, 22 Oct. 2025
• The problem is that the industry has changed a lot since Atari’s primitive graphics.
  — Gieson Cacho, Mercury News, 25 June 2026
• There are nine primitive, tent-only sites without electric access.
  — Aurora Beacon-News, Chicago Tribune, 23 Mar. 2026
• Overnight guests can also choose to use an RV site or camp in tent spots or in the primitive camping areas.
  — Lana Ferguson, Dallas Morning News, 26 Feb. 2026
• The aesthetic is plush but also primitive.
  — Kathryn Romeyn, Architectural Digest, 9 Mar. 2026
• Mules on the towpath along the canal could pull a heavy barge at a clip of 4 miles per hour – far faster than the job of dragging wagons over primitive roads.
  — Christine Keiner, The Conversation, 15 Oct. 2025
• But the primitive areas of our brains still have connections from when our ancestors relied on smell to survive.
  — Lauren Jarvis-Gibson, Charlotte Observer, 16 June 2026
• The ferry takes a set number of campers to the primitive camping area, who can stay for a certain number of days, says Strom.
  — Lauren David, Southern Living, 18 Apr. 2026
• But the actual products were not only few and far between, but primitive, bulky and clearly not ready for mass adoption.
  — Larry Magid, Mercury News, 18 June 2026
• This latest iteration of the conflict was also among its most primitive.
  — Hussein Agha, New Yorker, 22 Aug. 2025
• There was barely any surviving footage of the show, except for a primitive audio recording made by Short.
  — Brent Lang, Variety, 6 Sep. 2025
• The closest anyone has come to success for eggs has been very primitive human egg cells that are too immature to be fertilized.
  — Rob Stein, NPR, 30 Sep. 2025
• Unique camping options include wooden platform sites and primitive tent areas, plus cabins for overnight stays.
  — Diana Leyva, Nashville Tennessean, 22 Sep. 2025

primitive

2 of 2 noun

• The museum is known for its collection of American primitives.
• Their primitives are well-priced and much less picked through than most spots in the city.
  — kansascity, 13 Dec. 2017
• Cannabis, to them, was a resource-rich land inhabited by primitives.
  — Scott Eden, Rolling Stone, 1 Feb. 2026
• That question lives in the wallet, and the wallet, until very recently, did not have the right primitive to answer it.
  — Boaz Sobrado, Forbes.com, 16 May 2026
• Since that time, computer scientists have developed a large library of such primitives.
  — Quanta Magazine, 10 Dec. 2012
• The other response is that ancient people were deluded primitives.
  — David Wolpe, New York Times, 22 Dec. 2017
• By combining these primitives, the robot can move a small object on a slippery surface to an arbitrary location.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 31 Aug. 2016
• Hand crafted wood items, primitives, applique, crochet, Christmas and home decor, jewelry, florals, baked goods, and more.
  — Luann Gibbs, Cincinnati.com, 15 Oct. 2017
• Three primitives, in particular, are absent today.
  — Gabriel Alin Zainescu, Forbes.com, 23 May 2026
• The trust and installation primitives underneath were the actual product.
  — Gabriel Alin Zainescu, Forbes.com, 23 May 2026
• Much of today’s digital trust relies on cryptographic primitives that could be weakened by future advances in quantum computing.
  — David Williams, Forbes.com, 14 Jan. 2026
• Those new motions can be added to the current portfolio of primitives that can give more options to have more synergy because the sets of motion primitives contribute some aspect lacking in the others.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 31 Aug. 2016
• Each is a move to control more of the layer between the customer and the underlying financial primitive, whether that primitive is a card rail, a deposit account, or a stablecoin reserve.
  — Azeem Khan, Forbes.com, 23 June 2026
• Robotics specialists should also analyze dance patterns as motion primitives.
  — Smriti Kirubanandan, Forbes.com, 24 Feb. 2026
• These combine multiple motor primitives to enable reliable movement and manipulation in the real world.
  — Jijo Malayil, Interesting Engineering, 27 Nov. 2025
• But better reasons inhere in the rush of new ideas that have reinvigorated the science of paleontology and forced us to recast murky old primitives as efficient and worthy creatures in their own terms.
  — Stephen Jay Gould, Discover Magazine, 11 Nov. 2019
• Tesla has also utilized motion capture to collect data on human movement, thereby accelerating the training of motion primitives.
  — Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 7 Nov. 2025
• Today, conservatism is soiled by scowling primitives whose irritable gestures lack mental ingredients.
  — George F. Will, The Denver Post, 31 May 2017
• What follows this admission is a piercing dissection not of the art itself, but of frameworks of looking at Black art and life that go beyond racist tropes disguised as appeals to the primitive, the spontaneous, the corporeal.
  — Literary Hub, 12 Mar. 2026
• Later watercolors, decades beyond the din of war, capture black subjects as romanticized primitives amid the burgeoning growth of the Caribbean tourist industry — coral diving here, swigging from a coconut there.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 4 Oct. 2019
• There’s a great selection of Roy Rogers memorabilia and cowboy collectibles along with jewelry and silver, books and postcards, primitives, depression glass, pottery, furniture and lots more.
  — Michelle Newman, San Antonio Express-News, 11 June 2018
• Desperately seeking coherence, the author blunders into a binary world-view, divided between civilized softies and pugnacious primitives, wallers and warriors.
  — Felipe Fernández-Armesto, WSJ, 13 Sep. 2018
• Nevertheless, deep reinforcement learning has already enabled learning to play Atari games from raw pixels (without access to the underlying game state) and learning certain types of visuomotor manipulation primitives.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 24 Feb. 2017
• If a devastating cryptographic attack against one of WireGuard's underlying primitives is discovered, a new WireGuard protocol will be devised as a total package.
  — Jim Salter, Ars Technica, 26 Aug. 2018
• Skipping primitive instantiation with config tweaks Developers can optimize ray tracing pipelines by skipping unnecessary primitives.
  — Jim Salter, Ars Technica, 19 Mar. 2020
• If the computation is sparse, Onyx is configured to use sparse primitives, and if the computation is dense, Onyx is reconfigured to take advantage of parallelism, similar to how GPUs function.
  — Olivia Hsu, IEEE Spectrum, 28 Apr. 2026
• Her influences range from Russian icons and Italian primitives to Renaissance painters, divine and mythological figures, particularly Venus as an archetype of femininity, and the queens of ancient Egypt.
  — Anthony Demarco, Forbes.com, 25 May 2026
• Over 250 vendors with antiques, vintage jewelry and furniture, primitives, architectural elements, mid-century collectibles, American and memorabilia.
  — Rasputin Todd, Cincinnati.com, 9 Apr. 2018
• Over 250 vendors with antiques, vintage jewelry and furniture, primitives, architectural elements, mid-century collectibles, Americana and memorabilia.
  — Rasputin Todd, Cincinnati.com, 9 July 2018
• Over 250 vendors with antiques, vintage jewelry and furniture, primitives, architectural elements, mid-century collectibles, Americana and memorabilia.
  — Rasputin Todd, Cincinnati.com, 11 June 2018