Example Sentences

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In another picture, crisp white light graces the curved inner wall of a lava tube, affording us a revelatory glimpse of a space primordially secret and raw.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 24, 2018

Centuries of cultural, economic, and military fraternity with Americans were apparently not enough to prevent Brits from being primordially thrilled to see an American bro bleed.

From The Verge • Aug. 27, 2018

There’s a shark attack within the first two minutes of Jaume Collet-Serra’s brash, primordially enjoyable woman-vs.-nature thriller The Shallows, which is good news for impatient sorts.

From Time • Dec. 28, 2016

There’s something authentically Greek, something primordially visionary and speculative, in Lee’s imaginative, profoundly sympathetic approach—and that, too, risks becoming a source of misunderstanding.

From The New Yorker • Dec. 9, 2015

If we consider leaf-climbers alone, the idea that they were primordially twiners is forcibly suggested.

From The Movements and Habits of Climbing Plants by Darwin, Charles