primal
Example Sentences
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As he nestles into its body, we see the primal need most animals, including humans, have for touch, for embrace.
From Los Angeles Times
Others think it has to do with the primal fluid of the universe.
From Literature
As societies emerged, we began to develop egos, those brittle parts of our selves taxed with negotiating between our primal urges and the constraints of a civilized order.
"Motherhood can activate insecurity, comparison, and fear of exclusion in ways that feel almost primal."
From BBC
Wrestling strips life’s complications down to primal conflicts, and few wrestlers embodied this approach as famously, and forebodingly, as Hulk Hogan.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
