carnal

Example Sentences

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He told me, “Hey carnal, I’m going to invite you to be on my album.”

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 4, 2025

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

Sudan Archives — the songwriter, singer and violinist Brittney Denise Parks — juggles the many conflicting pressures and aspirations of being young, Black, female, artistic, carnal, career-minded and social on “Natural Brown Prom Queen.”

From New York Times • Nov. 30, 2022

“Julia” makes much of Child’s embrace of the sensual — French food and wine, and carnal pleasure — and the journey is told most convincingly through snapshots.

From Washington Post • Nov. 16, 2021

They preached doctrines surpassing man’s understanding; they set a restraint on carnal pleasures; they taught contempt for everything that is in the world.

From Church and State as Seen in the Formation of Christendom by Allies, T. W. (Thomas William)