How to Use carnal in a Sentence

carnal

adjective

• The Weeknd is an avatar of carnal cool, and Bruno Mars is a good-times machine.
  — Jon Caramanica, New York Times, 2 Dec. 2016
• Or at least to the world the carnal figures look like those actresses, and the faces in the videos are indeed their own.
  — Franklin Foer, The Atlantic, 8 Apr. 2018
• Little bits of cheese just don’t have the same carnal appeal as one huge chunk.
  — Ali Francis, Bon Appétit, 2 Feb. 2023
• Use this time to refine, adjust, and recommit to a carnal code that’s built to last.
  — Bess Matassa, Teen Vogue, 2 July 2018
• There seemed to be much more to the story than the satisfaction of one man’s carnal needs.
  — Nina Burleigh, Rolling Stone, 24 June 2021
• It’s prime time to get comfy with the full-range of your carnal behavior.
  — Bess Matassa, Teen Vogue, 27 Apr. 2018
• Most of the rooms are cozy cabins, perfect for a carnal getaway.
  — Gary Shteyngart, Condé Nast Traveler, 30 Aug. 2023
• Here, the passion Pearl feels is more charnel than carnal.
  — Peter Debruge, Variety, 3 Sep. 2022
• The former is taut and carnal, while the latter is loose and unbothered.
  — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 18 Mar. 2022
• This area of your chart — known as the Eighth House — is also connected to our carnal desires.
  — Aliza Kelly Faragher, Allure, 30 Aug. 2018
• But along the lines of yukhoe, the Korean version of the dish, it's sweetened by Asian pear, which dulls the carnal signal being sent.
  — Mike Sula, Chicago Reader, 3 May 2018
• Drake is lost inside his carnal desires and yearns for that special touch from his side-chick.
  — Richy Rosario, Billboard, 27 June 2022
• Take Bonnie at the movie’s start—carnal, restless, not getting any younger.
  — Lili Anolik, VanityFair.com, 19 June 2017
• Soul and gospel share a language of supplication, for a lover or for the Lord; singers brought to their knees in carnal passion or in prayer.
  — Adam Bradley Adam Bradley Photographs By D’angelo Lovell Williams Styled By Ian Bradley Nick Haramis Photographs By Lise Sarfati Styled By Suzanne Koller Sasha Weiss Photographs By Justin French Susan Dominus Photographs By Luis Alberto Rodriguez Styled By Charlotte Collet, New York Times, 13 Oct. 2022
• In fact, the most carnal scenes reveal the most about what these women want and how complicated that want can be.
  — Elizabeth Flock, Washington Post, 26 July 2019
• Each episode brings her to a different country in Asia, Europe and Africa to explore carnal taboos and norms.
  — Sara Aridi, New York Times, 17 Mar. 2018
• In some sections, there is something almost carnal in the way the roots and branches curl together.
  — Chiara Goia, Smithsonian, 2 May 2017
• In some sections, there is something almost carnal in the way the roots and branches curl together.
  — Chiara Goia, Smithsonian, 29 Apr. 2017
• These bizarre animals are chaste survivors in a carnal world.
  — Quanta Magazine, 19 Nov. 2014
• Rosemary keeps things light while, on the other end of the spectrum, castoreum creates a carnal cast.
  — Adam Hurly, Robb Report, 1 Oct. 2021
• Constantine’s hot-blooded hit strikes a chord with the idea that even mortals are no match against their carnal desires.
  — Paris Close, Billboard, 24 Oct. 2017
• Madonna made a name for herself as a carnal dance-floor diva with a penchant for bucking the status quo.
  — Edward Segarra, USA TODAY, 20 Oct. 2022
• But as the Promise Keeper teens’ carnal urges begin to rise, that pledge of piety becomes harder to uphold.
  — Brittani Samuel, Washington Post, 20 Mar. 2024
• More importantly, Art and Patrick and Tashi all achieved a kind of carnal clarity.
  — Joe Reid, Vulture, 26 Apr. 2024
• The 74-year-old Manassas man was arrested June 25 and charged with carnal knowledge.
  — Lisa M. Bolton, Washington Post, 3 July 2019
• Once upon a time, everything carnal or feral in me was made, by faith, moribund.
  — Aaron Gilbreath, Longreads, 27 Feb. 2018
• The embrace in question is between husband and wife, which is conjugal to some, carnal to others.
  — Brian T. Allen, National Review, 28 Jan. 2023
• News outlets report 18-year-old Javionne Thomas is charged with felony carnal knowledge of a juvenile.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Sep. 2019
• May and July could bring you a sweet boy who plans movie-worthy moments to remember, and in the fall, someone who appeals to your carnal side might catch your eye.
  — Aurora Tower, Cosmopolitan, 10 Jan. 2017
• Later that same year, he was arrested and convicted of carnal knowledge with a 16-year-old girl.
  — Longreads, Longreads, 2 Nov. 2021

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