How to Use primordial in a Sentence

primordial

adjective

• People come here for the views, the open space, the chance to see Earth at its most primordial.
  — Todd Plummer, Vogue, 20 Jan. 2023
• Lo, Posh and Becks emerged, into the primordial celebrity whorl of the ’90s.
  — Matt Ortile, Condé Nast Traveler, 31 Oct. 2023
• Our sense of smell is the only one that has this direct link to the area of the brain that controls emotion, a primordial area of the brain.
  — Kara Baskin, BostonGlobe.com, 23 Dec. 2022
• There will be wacky, tacky characters, primordial wildlife at close range and run-ins with the law.
  — Ellen Morton, Washington Post, 5 July 2022
• For now, though, that crown rests solely on the tiny head of the primordial dragonfly.
  — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 24 Oct. 2022
• The price of bitcoin, crypto’s primordial coin, is down 50% since this time last year.
  — Scott Nover, Quartz, 13 Feb. 2023
• There’s that little primordial tickle at the base of your brain.
  — Tom Vanderbilt, Outside Online, 28 Feb. 2022
• Dense wrinkles in the primordial energies of the Big Bang?
  — New York Times, 12 May 2022
• One idea still in the running is that the missing matter is made of primordial black holes that formed soon after the big bang.
  — Clara Moskowitz, Scientific American, 18 Mar. 2021
• But the most significant marathon in the world wasn't prominent during the primordial stages of the post-Floyd world.
  — Mike Freeman, USA TODAY, 2 Dec. 2020
• Pike shuts her eyes to keep the pigment out, and Redniss plunges us into a full page of primordial darkness.
  — Max Norman, The New Yorker, 23 July 2021
• The tepid decision by the NFL shows that when money and power are at stake, the league reverts back to its more primordial form.
  — Mike Freeman, USA TODAY, 1 July 2021
• This is Damballah, the primordial creator of life in Haitian Vodou folklore.
  — Vulture, 7 Mar. 2023
• Time in the sun Before so much as the first microbe existed, there had to be amino acids thought to have formed in one of the primordial oozes of early Earth.
  — Elizabeth Rayne, Ars Technica, 22 May 2023
• Begin by restoring your desk to a more primordial state.
  — Nina Molina, WSJ, 5 May 2022
• The primordial solar nebula refers to the cloud of dust, ice and gas that the solar system was born within.
  — Jamie Carter, Forbes, 16 Feb. 2024
• There are good reasons to think that black holes in this size range must have been formed early in the universe and that these primordial black still fill the universe.
  — The Physics Arxiv Blog, Discover Magazine, 21 Dec. 2023
• The laptop features artwork of Tiamat, one of the primordial gods.
  — Gordon Mah Ung, PCWorld, 13 Jan. 2021
• In Tolkien lore, the trees were the source of light for Valar until they were destroyed by Melkor (aka Morgoth) and a giant primordial spider.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 14 July 2022
• In the primordial tech ooze of video games, AI is set up to have a transformative impact on one part of the industry.
  — Gieson Cacho, The Mercury News, 22 Mar. 2024
• Overall, the findings show that the area where NWA 7034 was first ejected from is a relic of primordial Martian crust.
  — Elizabeth Gamillo, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 July 2022
• The Skyspace aperture sharpened the sky in a tight edit: Slim wisps of cloud snaked and wound around each other in a primordial ballet.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 27 May 2021
• For adoptees, who live right up against their brick walls, the proximity can be heartrending, a primordial loss.
  — Raffi Khatchadourian, The New Yorker, 15 Nov. 2021
• The light-colored highlands are composed of anorthosite, an igneous rock believed to be the remains of the primordial crust of the Moon, and are dated to 4.5 to 3.9 billion years.
  — David Bressan, Forbes, 10 Oct. 2021
• In the beginning there was water, and lots of it, flowing out of the primordial Blue Hole and many other springs at the southern edge of Olmos Basin.
  — Ed Conroy, San Antonio Express-News, 2 Nov. 2022
• One team named it after the Greek deity Gaia, primordial mother of Earth and all life, and her son Enceladus.
  — WIRED, 12 Nov. 2023
• The key to success is to appeal to the viewer’s lizard brain: to craft a photo or video that captures the primordial appeal of a perfectly ripe berry.
  — Soleil Ho, SFChronicle.com, 26 Oct. 2020
• Muslim tradition dictates that the stone dates back to the prophet Adam, the primordial man, said al-Akiti.
  — Eoin McSweeney, and Mostafa Salem, CNN, 4 May 2021
• In fact, all cats—even lions and tigers—have primordial pouches, regardless of weight.
  — Meghan Overdeep, Southern Living, 12 Apr. 2021
• Our guide, Stella Peters, led us through primordial forest to the sprawling beach where her people lived for more than 5,500 years.
  — Jen Murphy, Travel + Leisure, 19 Jan. 2024

Last Updated: 28 May 2024