Sample Sentences forprimeval (editor-reviewed)
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She found the fossilized remains of a primeval palm tree.primeval = ancient
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The area has been inhabited since primeval times.
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After consulting a tree to ascertain from its lichen which way was south, and taking no lip from the subordinates who ventured to correct him, Colonel Maycomb set out on a purposeful journey to rout the enemy and entangled his troops so far northwest in the forest primeval that they were eventually rescued by settlers moving inland. (source)
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Eckels turned slowly to regard the primeval garbage dump, that hill of nightmares and terror. (source)
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Primeval bubbles surfaced it with lethargical majesty as Billy Pilgrim stared.† (source)
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A live-oak forest of a primeval dimension loomed before us.† (source)
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It was like something out of primeval times.† (source)
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Far behind the corner of the house—which rose like a geranium bloom against the subdued colours around—stretched the soft azure landscape of The Chase—a truly venerable tract of forest land, one of the few remaining woodlands in England of undoubted primaeval date, wherein Druidical mistletoe was still found on aged oaks, and where enormous yew-trees, not planted by the hand of man grew as they had grown when they were pollarded for bows.† (source)unconventional spelling: This is a British spelling option. The British more commonly use primeval which is also used by Americans.
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These last were past the gym, the tennis courts, the river and the stadium, on the edge of the woods which, however English in name, were in my mind primevally American, reaching in unbroken forests far to the north, into the great northern wilderness.† (source)
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You remember that the pre-Socratics discussed the question of primeval substance and change?† (source)
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Upon the left bank of the stream the population is rare; from time to time one descries a troop of slaves loitering in the half-desert fields; the primaeval forest recurs at every turn; society seems to be asleep, man to be idle, and nature alone offers a scene of activity and of life.† (source)
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Kur was a primeval ocean-Chaos—that Enki conquered.† (source)
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If thou wilt not unmask thy counterfeit, This earth will be the prey of strife once more, As when primaeval discord held its reign.† (source)
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Through the haze of snow, the shoreline of Boston morphed into something primeval—the way it might have looked when Skirnir's descendant first sailed his longship up the Charles.† (source)
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He was the way he was because billions of years ago when the Vogons had first crawled out of the sluggish primeval seas of Vogsphere, and had lain panting and heaving on the planet's virgin shores ...when the first rays of the bright young Vogsol sun had shone across them that morning, it was as if the forces of evolution had simply given up on them there and then, had turned aside in disgust and written them off as an ugly and unfortunate mistake.† (source)
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There was no way to tell by looking that the land beneath my childish feet wasn't the primeval mold I read about at school, but it was new, created by magic lines of tile my father would talk about with pleasure and reverence.† (source)
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