How to Use corporeal in a Sentence

corporeal

adjective

• Even as a ghost, Pap tries to beat his only son, but there are corporeal rules against that sort of thing.
  — Lester Fabian Brathwaite, EW.com, 13 Apr. 2023
• Our bones will likely outlive the rest of our corporeal form by tens if not hundreds of years.
  — Mia Mercado, The New Yorker, 22 June 2023
• But just as the brain is more than a corporeal lump of flesh, so the art of neurology is more than a static image.
  — Andrea Gawrylewski, Scientific American, 18 Aug. 2020
• The corporeal evidence of grief could melt away, even if its roots still clung tightly.
  — Rachel Vorona Cote, SELF, 18 Apr. 2019
• Do not burp, cough, trip, sneeze, stub your toe, walk the wrong way, stop to tie your shoe, blow your nose, or call attention to your corporeal presence in any way.
  — Alyssa Brandt, The New Yorker, 12 June 2023
• Now, after being given a corporeal form, all the little prince needs is a name.
  — Kelly Conaboy, The Cut, 23 Apr. 2018
• And boom, they’re possessed by whatever spirit has been offered a chance to take over a corporeal body.
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 27 July 2023
• Many of the subjects stretched and sprawled beyond the frame, suggesting the scope of their corporeal ambition and an eagerness to connect to the outside world.
  — Jon Caramanica, New York Times, 31 Mar. 2023
• The most enduring symptom is a corporeal heat wave that shows no more sign of fully lifting than the warmth in northern Eurasia.
  — Bathsheba Demuth, The Atlantic, 28 Aug. 2020
• Cruz said in Season 4, Dr. Culber will fulfill his promise that Grey will have a corporeal body.
  — Adam B. Vary, Variety, 9 Oct. 2021
• At a magnification of ten times, the yellow glow took on the contour of a corporeal object.
  — The New Yorker, 10 Aug. 2021
• Punishment was a $2.50 fine, four days of work on the public road or corporeal punishment.
  — Ashley Mott, USA TODAY, 8 July 2020
• As Cavendish conceived of it, writing invites souls to live in corporeal figures.
  — Merve Emre, The New Yorker, 29 Jan. 2024
• But Taylor Swift, in her corporeal form at least, was not actually there to receive it on Friday night.
  — Amy Phillips, Pitchfork, 16 Oct. 2023
• Spellbound’s artists will lead the audience through the corporeal journey.
  — Kt Hawbaker, chicagotribune.com, 9 May 2018
• And lucky for us, her corporeal form, none other than the Echo speaker, is getting majorly discounted this Prime Day.
  — Anabel Pasarow, refinery29.com, 15 July 2019
• This reader, with at least 50 years more in corporeal form than Ching, could not help but rapidly identify with her wisdom and experience the poignance of her story.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 9 June 2023
• Not an actual, corporeal substance like copper or tin or sour grapes, but a concept in engineering dating back at least as far as the 1950s.
  — Chris Klimek, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Dec. 2022
• To remove yourself from corporeal reality for a little bit and let your husband/wife deal with the hungry children/pets.
  — oregonlive, 10 Mar. 2023
• But the author of this email also points out there this is not the only fan account dedicated to just one aspect of Timothée's corporeal form.
  — Cady Drell, Marie Claire, 7 June 2019
• A few years before the story started, the god Eothas supposedly took on corporeal form as a farmer named Waidwen and started a holy war, and the opposing side blew him up with a bomb constructed with the help of the other gods.
  — Thomas Wells, Ars Technica, 16 Jan. 2018
• In the corporeal metaphors that the industrial rail network often inspired, stations were the beating hearts, rail lines the arteries, trains and passengers the vital blood.
  — Henry Grabar, The Atlantic, 22 Nov. 2013
• Zooming into a wedding needs to be considered as real as being there in corporeal form.
  — James Hamblin, The Atlantic, 17 June 2020
• So when Jennifer dissipated in the ionosphere earlier in the season, JJ used it as an opportunity to get a corporeal body and take over her life.
  — Chancellor Agard, EW.com, 25 May 2021
• Surely there must be some ancient text about this, this curious confluence of corporeal events?
  — Richard Lawson, Vanities, 21 Mar. 2017
• The Neo-Concrete movement that emerged still used geometric forms, but did so in pursuit of a more sociable and corporeal experience.
  — Susan Tallman, The New York Review of Books, 24 May 2023
• For the average home dweller, taking a bath used to be a private endeavor: fill a giant porcelain bowl with warm water, strip naked, submerge your corporeal form, rinse, repeat.
  — Rachel Syme, The New Yorker, 28 Sep. 2019
• Along the way, physical artifacts like letters, pictures or home videos prompt us to remember those who’ve left the corporeal world, sharpening the lines of those now-fuzzy memories.
  — Lauren Warnecke, chicagotribune.com, 8 Dec. 2019
• Bodily Secretions Image Barney is perhaps the greatest living artist of corporeal fluids, whether urine, feces, semen, blood or breast milk.
  — M.h. Miller, New York Times, 15 May 2024
• The chair is a corporeal symbol of maternal strength; Toogood, a multi-hyphenate British clothing and interior designer, has said that the roundness was inspired by her pregnancy.
  — Evan Moffitt, New York Times, 28 Mar. 2024

Last Updated: 2 Nov 2024