primeval

Example Sentences

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Although oaks suffer a host of foliar diseases, these images are not about the arrival of a new pathogen, but the departure of a primeval insect.

From Washington Post

The answer, she said, was “a deep and primeval” urge to “make the things we own more beautiful.”

From New York Times

And yet the bucolic setting reads more like a peaceful suburban park than the “hostile environment” of the forest primeval it’s described as.

From Washington Post

Romania is home to extensive swaths of old-growth and primeval forests, many of which sit in the Southern Carpathians.

From New York Times

It was written for Kozena, and began with her waving her arms in what looked like a breathing exercise, then revealed itself as extended technique — her vocalise matched by the primeval airiness of a flute.

From New York Times