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

But same-sex relationships are criminalised by a criminal code which Dr Adjepong calls "completely vague" - introduced by the British when they ruled Ghana - that mentions "unnatural carnal knowledge".

From BBC • Mar. 10, 2021

“The geekiness — the fact that orange wine is challenging, that its appeal is more cerebral and gastronomic than carnal and epicurean — is central to its identity,” he writes.

From Washington Post • Sep. 27, 2019

This sounds rather strange to the modern missionary, and seems like trusting too much to "carnal weapons," but it is eminently practical.

From Stanley's Adventures in the Wilds of Africa A Graphic Account of the Several Expeditions of Henry M. Stanley into the Heart of the Dark Continent by Headley, Joel Tyler