Example Sentences

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There is something elementally heavenly about the smell of alliums cooking in butter.

From Salon • Dec. 28, 2025

So when the opportunity to save a little money arrives — especially for something as elementally gripping as music — it’s almost worthy of consideration by default.

From Washington Post • Dec. 29, 2021

But the pandemic presents that rare menace that is elementally cross-border.

From New York Times • Mar. 26, 2020

There is, for me, something so elementally American in the tragic tale of a boy who dreams big, gets everything he wants and yet still winds up wanting, lonely and displaced.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 24, 2016

Briony was her last, and nothing between now and the grave would be as elementally important or pleasurable as the care of a child.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan