Example Sentences

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It’s the kind of fragrance that’s so animalic and intense at first smell that it makes you gag, with a dry down that becomes strangely addicting, comforting and warm.

From Los Angeles Times • May 28, 2024

“There’s an animalic quality. It’s more musky than a burger.”

From The New Yorker • Sep. 23, 2019

This belief underlies the fabulous creatures of Greek and Roman mythology, and also helps to explain the representation of gods as partly animalic in Egypt, in India and in China.

From Babylonian-Assyrian Birth-Omens and Their Cultural Significance by Jastrow, Morris

They are able to penetrate into the body of men, and thus produce similar physical and mental disturbances as the animalic demons.

From The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria by Jastrow, Morris