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of or relating to the body or flesh (in contrast to the spirit) — especially sexual desires or feelings

Carnal knowledge is a common expression referencing experience with sexual intercourse.

carnal remains

carnal desires
But we have reason to cool our raging motions, our carnal stings, our unbitted lusts;
Shakespeare -- Othello
an age grossly carnal in its pleasures, and grossly common in its aims
Oscar Wilde -- The Picture Of Dorian Gray
Now mine own affairs, which are of a spiritual kind and much more important than yours which are carnal, lie on the other side of this stream.
J. Walker McSpadden -- Robin Hood
carnal knowledge
When he pronounces a soft O he protrudes his full carnal lips as if he kissed the vowel.
James Joyce -- A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
They could be bought and sold, whipped and branded, used for the carnal pleasure of their owners, bred to make more slaves.
George R.R. Martin -- A Dance With Dragons
How many of them did you have carnal knowledge of?
George R.R. Martin -- A Feast For Crows
The wretchedness of such a mind as that—the ungoverned and carnal desires!
Theodore Dreiser -- An American Tragedy
We women can't never realize the carnal thoughts in the hearts of men.
Sinclair Lewis -- Main Street
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.
Sarah J. Maas -- Throne of Glass
So I am only capable of carnal lusts?
Margaret Mitchell -- Gone with the Wind
My appetite for her was not carnal but pure.
Russell Baker -- Growing Up
The minister almost wept with joy at this deliverance from the carnal desire to "peep" and went back to his own house praising God.
Sherwood Anderson -- Winesburg, Ohio
But she had; she was he,re; she preferred, then, to hear him preach the gospel than to linger with others in carnal delight.
James Baldwin -- Go Tell It on the Mountain
My only carnal pleasures these days seem to be culinary.
Dan Brown -- The Da Vinci Code
Annie would approve of most carnal activity but not here, at work, in a bathroom.
Dave Eggers -- The Circle
Laurent, lock up my hair shirt and my scourge, And pray for freedom from each carnal urge.
Jean-Baptiste Poquelin Moliere -- Tartuffe
Slaying the carnal soul in the holy war.
Joseph Campbell -- The Hero With a Thousand Faces

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