carnal

Example Sentences

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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

Or, ‘Hey carnal, do I go along with the program?’

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 14, 2024

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

He hit American pop like a fireball in the mid-1950s, a hopped-up emissary from cultures that mainstream America barely knew, drawing on the sacred and the profane, the spiritual and the carnal.

From New York Times • May 10, 2020

“Ay, the eyes o’ man are never satisfied with seeing, nor his ears with hearing,” said Eppie: “I doubt that is but a carnal notion o’ heaven.

From Frederica and her Guardians The Perils of Orphanhood by Robertson, Margaret M. (Margaret Murray)