Sample sentences for CORPOREAL

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Definition

having material or physical form or substance

or:

regarding the body as opposed to the mind or spirit

Her time of corporeal suffering will soon pass.

corporeal = regarding the body as opposed to the mind or spirit

It was mournful, indeed, to witness the subjugation of that vigorous spirit to a corporeal infirmity.
Bronte, Charlotte -- Jane Eyre
The corporeal Meg simply was not.
Madeleine L'Engle -- A Wrinkle in Time

corporeal = regarding the body as opposed to the mind or spirit

It's very difficult for Mrs Which to think in a corporeal way.
Madeleine L'Engle -- A Wrinkle in Time

corporeal = relating to having material form or substance

It is by no means certain that our individual personality is the single inhabitant of these our corporeal frames... We all do things both awake and asleep which surprise us. Perhaps we have cotenants in this house we live in.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
I suppose now you do not believe in corporeal transference.
Stoker, Bram -- Dracula
High above on the balcony, like a soul tearing free of its corporeal restrains, a luminous pyre of flame erupted from the camerlegno's center.
Dan Brown -- Angels & Demons
It was mournful, indeed, to witness the subjugation of that vigorous spirit to a corporeal infirmity.
Charlotte Bronte -- Jane Eyre
His corporeal heart was beating strong and fast .... and his mind felt sharp.
Dan Brown -- The Lost Symbol
I suppose now you do not believe in corporeal transference.
Bram Stoker -- Dracula
If you summon him, his spirit form will come to you but his corporeal self will remain bound to the jagged rocks of Duduael.
Cassandra Clare -- City of Lost Souls
Tess's passing corporeal blight had been her mental harvest.
Thomas Hardy -- Tess of the d'Urbervilles
Eventually he left, at least his corporeal self left, but he appeared in minutes, on her third screen, pleading for forgiveness.
Dave Eggers -- The Circle
For Gammas, Deltas and Epsilons had been to some extent conditioned to associate corporeal mass with social superiority.
Aldous Huxley -- Brave New World
There was a corporeal humility in looking up at him; and a white man standing before him seemed a white flag come to beg truce of a fortress.
Herman Melville -- Moby Dick
The volunteers began to dump water on the fire almost as though they might even so late save some corporeal part of the family.
John Steinbeck -- East of Eden
He can't come into the Institute in his corporeal body.
Cassandra Clare -- City of Ashes
There the body stood, leaning charmingly, turning to smile at him, its radiant elbows spread wide in the dual symmetry of its limbs, of its corporeality.
Thomas Mann -- The Magic Mountain
'A corporeal Patronus?
J.K. Rowling -- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
The occupant of the chair grew now less vague in outline, but scarcely more corporeal; he was a little old man in Chinese dress, its folds and flounces loose against a flat, emaciated frame.
James Hilton -- Lost Horizon

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