Sample Sentences forcorporeal (auto-selected)
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It's very difficult for Mrs Which to think in a corporeal way. (source)corporeal = relating to having material form or substance
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That was the moment they'd verified his corporeal identity.† (source)
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By means of some talisman or potion, or with the help of the gods themselves, the corporeal presence of the hero is rendered insubstantial, and for the duration of the spell he may wander among his fellow men unseen.† (source)
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For Gammas, Deltas and Epsilons had been to some extent conditioned to associate corporeal mass with social superiority.† (source)
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I suppose now you do not believe in corporeal transference.† (source)
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It was mournful, indeed, to witness the subjugation of that vigorous spirit to a corporeal infirmity.† (source)
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Yes,' said Harry, 'because —' 'A corporeal Patronus?† (source)
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Some of them struck me as singularly odd compounds of ardour and flatness; commencing in strong feeling, and concluding in the affected, wordy style that a schoolboy might use to a fancied, incorporeal sweetheart.† (source)standard prefix: The prefix "in-" in incorporeal means not and reverses the meaning of corporeal. This is the same pattern you see in words like invisible, incomplete, and insecure.
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and the man who should not have been there at all, who was too old to be there at all, both in years and experience: that mental and spiritual orphan whose fate it apparently was to exist in some limbo halfway between where his corporeality was and his mentality and moral equipment desired to be—an undergraduate at the University, yet by the sheer accumulation of too full years behind him forced into the extra-academnic of a law class containing six members;† (source)
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Mrs. Crupp, after holding divers conversations respecting Peggotty, in a very high-pitched voice, on the staircase — with some invisible Familiar it would appear, for corporeally speaking she was quite alone at those times — addressed a letter to me, developing her views.† (source)
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Their incorporeality made them invisible Yet each step they took left the print of a foot.† (source)standard prefix: The prefix "in-" in incorporeality means not and reverses the meaning of corporeality. This is the same pattern you see in words like invisible, incomplete, and insecure.
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Because they're mostly noncorporeal, partly, but nobody knows exactly why.† (source)standard prefix: The prefix "non-" in noncorporeal means not and reverses the meaning of corporeal. This is the same pattern you see in words like nonfat, nonfiction, and nonprofit.
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"Jude, I want you to kiss me, as a lover, incorporeally," she said, tremulously nestling up to him, with damp lashes.† (source)standard prefix: The prefix "in-" in incorporeally means not and reverses the meaning of corporeally. This is the same pattern you see in words like invisible, incomplete, and insecure.
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His corporeal heart was beating strong and fast ...and his mind felt sharp.† (source)
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Merely something incorporeal, intangible?† (source)
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It broke down, it vanished into that old impotent logic and morality which had betrayed him before and what day might it have been, what furrow might he have stopped dead in, one foot advanced, the unsentient plow handles in his instantaneous unsentient hands, what fence panel held in midair as though it had no weight by muscles which could not feel it, when he realised that there was more in his problem than just lack of time, that the problem contained some super-distillation of this lack: that be was not past sixty and that possibly he could get but one more son, had at best but one more son in his loins, as the old cannon might know when it has just one more shot in its corporeality.† (source)
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