primeval

How To Use primeval In A Sentence

• In some places it is primeval and wet, where streaky barked eucalyptus strive upwards through dripping mists alive with frog croaks.
• With names such as Codex Sinaiticus, the Macregol Gospels and the Valenciennes Apocalypse, they evoke lost empires and ancient monasteries as surely as archaeopteryx and ceratosaurus conjure up primeval swamps and forests. GetReligion
• I imagined the Tasmanian tiger stopping here en route from one primeval forest valley to another.
• Our experience of how human minds work provides an analogy to how a primeval, creator mind probably worked.
• exfoliated" surface sheets which here, too, gave it an inhuman, primeval look; in the higher sun the vast expanse looked, I suppose, more blindingly white; and nowhere did buildings or thickets seem to emerge. Over Prairie Trails
• Our fears seem less primeval when we notice that the island's warden, Adrian, is staring at the tide and looking concerned.
• Football fans will perhaps be pleased to know that the word huddle, from a Germanic verb to do with “crowding together” could it come from a primeval idea of a group hiding from animals or people, or protecting someone or something from being found or seen by others? The English Is Coming!
• The stone cages have a curiously sensual, primeval quality, like the ancient dry stone walls in fields.
• Hither ascended a _cantonnier_ when the new road was made up the valley, and here he found chipped flints of primeval man, a polished celt, a scrap of Samian ware, and in a niche at the side sealed up with stalactite, a tiny earthenware pitcher 2-1/2 inches high, a leaden spindle-whorl, some shells, and a toy sheep-bell. Castles and Cave Dwellings of Europe
• In addition to primeval heat, Earth's core also gets heat from radioactive decay of uranium, thorium, and potassium.