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How to use the word Primordial in a Sentence?

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What I look for is when a piece has its own language, it doesn't necessarily feel like it just exists for its own sake and has a presence that hums with a bit of life. It has the ability to communicate with you on a kind of primordial level.

Robert Pattinson

Found on CNN
1 year ago

There are lots of other things that help protect us, there are barriers in the nose. There are different kinds of proteins and things which are very ancient, primordial, protective systems, and they are likely to have been contributing to them not being infected, and we're really interested in trying to understand what those are.

Christopher Chiu

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Art is an inventive urge, savagism, unrestrained, primordial, excess, perturbation, acme, enthusiasm, improvisation.

Vladan Kuzmanović

added by vladan_k
3 years ago

Everything that exists perishes, everything that has been created by those who perish will be destroyed. One inevitably leads to the other, one can never return to the primordial.

Martin Tobias Lithner

added by anonymous
3 years ago

The fact that it’s in the whole body led us to the idea that it was primordial so the O2 must have been present at the formation of the comet.

Andr Bieler

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

I am, in point of fact, a particularly haughty and exclusive person, of pre-Adamite ancestral descent. You will understand this when I tell you that I can trace my ancestry back to a protoplasmal primordial atomic globule.

Sir William Schwenck Gilbert

added by anonymous
9 years ago

Our school systems teach our children that they are nothing but glorified apes who have evolutionized out of some primordial soup of mud, by teaching evolution as fact.

Tom DeLay

added by anonymous
10 years ago

I am...blood. That primordial ooze. Not out there, listeners, in here. Inside this skin we wear, it only lets us think we're something else-- nice clean brains, little talking computers running around in the pursuit of happiness. We pierce this skin and what do we see Warm ooze, protoplasm churning and jesting, defecating, pulsating, life, death.

Robin Green

added by anonymous
14 years ago

Ever since we crawled out of that primordial slime, that's been our unifying cry, More light. Sunlight. Torchlight. Candlight. Neon, incandescent lights that banish the darkness from our caves to illuminate our roads, the insides of our refrigerators. Big floods for the night games at Soldier's field. Little tiny flashlights for those books we read under the covers when we're supposed to be asleep. Light is more than watts and footcandles. Light is metaphor. Light is knowledge, light is life, light is light.

Andrew Schneider

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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