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How to use primaeval in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word primaeval? Here are some examples.

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We have shivered in the Benguela current off the Cape, partly from cold, partly from primaeval instinct.
The primaeval forests that once covered the whole region have survived only in tiny patches, now breaking the monotony of the open fields.
It was something primaeval – he knew what he wanted.
According to Levinas, morality was recognised through one's relation to the Other in face-to-face encounters, as the face was the primaeval locus of ethics.
It is an alphabet which embraces ornamental colour blends, figurations, primaeval symbols and cryptic signs and combines them into a homogenous whole.
Only in puerice do we possess the inverecund innocence of our primaeval progenitors.
Examples from Classical Literature
Another theory appears to have existed according to which the gods were contemporaneous with primaeval chaos.
Before leaving the names, it may be added that, of the primaeval deities, Anshar and Kishar are obviously Sumerian in form.
But I can help them to an explanation of what became of these primaeval men-of-arms.
But in the middle of her speech she falls into a primaeval doze of some eighteen hundred years.
The ancient bardic lore and primaeval traditions were refined to suit the new and sensitive poetic taste.
The primaeval serpent-worship is perpetuated in the reverence paid to traditional village-snakes.
The Hniflung hoard is also supposed to have consisted of the treasures of one band of primaeval artists, the Iwaldings.
The yearly phenomenon brought home to the minds of the Babylonians, a picture of primaeval chaos.
The massing together of the primaeval waters completes the picture of chaos in the cuneiform account.
Breeding success and nest-site characteristics of Red-breasted Flycatchers Ficedula parva in a primaeval forest.
He had begun a series of paintings on the theme of primaeval man.
If thou wilt not unmask thy counterfeit, This earth will be the prey of strife once more, As when primaeval discord held its reign.
In one section grew the plant man, in another a sixteen-legged worm, in the third the progenitor of the white ape and in the fourth the primaeval black man of Barsoom.
For instance, if the scent of the primaeval monster can so remain in proportion to the original strength, can the same be true of things of good import?
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