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How to use carnal in a sentence

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The recipient of affectional love given by a raptophile is not satisfactory as the recipient of carnal lust.
It wasn't demeaning, or if it was, it hurt him more, as I came off the carnal innocent, surviving only on instinct not knowledge.
For a moment, his anger concentrated on pure, soulless insatiable carnal hunger and desire, which was the cause of all his suffering.
For him, though, there's no competition between carnal and spiritual desires.
Punishment for adultery, incest, rape and carnal knowledge, etc, was death.
How can the loud music, the entertaining sermonettes, and the carnal circuses offered by some give life to the dead?
It's part of Schisgall's unblinking portrait of this group of carnal enthusiasts.
But we soon learn that the cops have to close down the carnal cathouse because the publicity makes the police look lenient.
By the time the inside-out flesh fiend shows up to correct the carnal corruption, a kind of catharsis occurs.
He is a model of moral rectitude, unabashed pragmatism, voluminous machismo and carnal fortification.
Unlike the prudish Victorians, Lady Mary adopted the Middle Eastern language of flowers to express decidedly carnal desires.
It's novel and antinovel, locked in carnal embrace, and fighting it out for the earthly vehicle of the author.
And, is not the previously-mentioned sensuality also closely connected to carnal pleasures?
The word carnal is a form of the Latin word for flesh, and all unlovingness is nothing but the fruit or work of the flesh.
Defined as the unlawful carnal knowledge of a woman by force and against her will, rape was a capital crime already in early Anglo-Saxon times.
This scene gives us our first sighting of Lord Summerisle as well as introducing the more carnal aspects of island life.
The majority of the men who frequent dance-halls go there with nothing but carnal thoughts in their minds.
It is carnal need, which, by coincidence, is an important part of the expression of love.
The Wooden Frock is from the Cinderella shelf of the library, the slipper here replaced by the more carnal symbol of a wedding ring.
When Sam's not being offered carnal delights, he is being offered other vices.
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Charges of unlawful carnal knowledge or indecent assault arise, for the most part, from complaints made by females.
His stockings were ungartered, and permitted between the knee and the calf interesting glances of the rude carnal.
In his opinion, it was a very carnal institution conducted by very hypocritical men and women.
Now mine own affairs, which are of a spiritual kind and much more important than yours which are carnal, lie on the other side of this stream.
I will fly in the face of all men and if I am a creature of carnal lusts I will live then for my lusts.
After receiving a blow to the head from her young son wielding a baseball, Abbey decides to ditch her excruciatingly dull middle-class existence in search of carnal pleasures.
These people of the remote future were strict vegetarians, and while I was with them, in spite of some carnal cravings, I had to be frugivorous also.
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