Sample Sentences forcarnal (editor-reviewed)
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The novel explored the contrast between spiritual love and carnal desire.carnal = sexual
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He was taught to reject carnal concerns and focus on matters of the spirit.carnal = bodily or worldly
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She viewed his interest in her as purely carnal.carnal = sexual
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Annie would approve of most carnal activity but not here, at work, in a bathroom.† (source)
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He found her carnal and motivating.† (source)
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The week surrounding Yulemas was a time of relaxation, a time to celebrate the carnal pleasures that kept one warm on a winter's night.† (source)
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And the visual accompaniment is a mystifying blend of contemporary, carnal encounters with unidentified young boys intercut with black-and-white, documentary footage from the Vietnam War.† (source)
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Dorothea accused herself of some meanness in this timidity: it was always odious to her to have any small fears or contrivances about her actions, but at this moment she was seeking the highest aid possible that she might not dread the corrosiveness of Celia's pretty carnally minded prose.† (source)
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It was hard to see and I called her name and she cooed, and what I could make out finally was that she was beckoning me, darkly, taunting me with the vile display of her carnality.† (source)
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All the sins, Albert, of the noncarnal type.† (source)standard prefix: The prefix "non-" in noncarnal means not and reverses the meaning of carnal. This is the same pattern you see in words like nonfat, nonfiction, and nonprofit.
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Later, looking back on the day, Ammu realized that the slightly feverish glitter in her bridegroom's eyes had not been love, or even excitement at the prospect of carnal bliss, but approximately eight large pegs of whiskey.† (source)
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It seemed prompted not so much by guilt as by fear, fear that the comfort or companionship that women seemed often to want, after a night spent more carnally, was somehow too committing.† (source)
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Bo Maybank stroked my arms and neck with a clean towel, and the pressure of his small hands felt almost sexual as I closed my eyes and listened to the masculine chant of the Corps in all its primitiveness and lawless carnality.† (source)
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She gave him a look he guessed was supposed to convey in equal measure a religious wonder at his great profundity and something rather more carnal.† (source)
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Perhaps the proof of Vivaldo's love resided in the fact that he had never thought of Cass carnally, as a woman, but only as a lady, and Richard's wife.† (source)
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Sickly sentiment, a high-flown Victorian excuse for honest carnality.† (source)
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