Primal in a sentence as an adjective

This primal instinct has come up and I feel stupid, angry and ashamed.

This is a primal need..If emotions give life value, what if we can inject more into ourselves?

There's something primal about Java that invites people to write it in styles that ape other languages.

It means that for people who get it, it offers a powerful design mechanism that makes products that give primal value.

I would submit that the drive for sex is a much more primal urge, going back a half billion years or so, than the drive for a college education.

It's becoming an angry mob, directing its violence at convenient targets to feed a primal hunger for revenge.

The use of familiar tactile attributes speaks to primal parts of our brains and helps us quickly understand affordances.

It was a very elegant system, root's primal shell spawned getty, and getty would spawn a shell for a user when they logged in, everything from that point on would be owned by the user just like everything that happened before was owned by root.

Yep, after more than 10 years of eating "healthy whole grains", reduced fat, loads of fruit and veg and doing various different kinds of exercise -- all without seeing huge results -- I, my wife and several friends started eating in a much more primal/paleo style a year ago.

When I was 21, I encountered John Lilly's theories of cognitive metaprogramming with psychedelics, and I designed a trip to convince myself -- at a really primal level -- of the fundamental beauty, power, and accessibility of math.

Primal definitions

adjective

serving as an essential component; "a cardinal rule"; "the central cause of the problem"; "an example that was fundamental to the argument"; "computers are fundamental to modern industrial structure"

See also: cardinal central fundamental

adjective

having existed from the beginning; in an earliest or original stage or state; "aboriginal forests"; "primal eras before the appearance of life on earth"; "the forest primeval"; "primordial matter"; "primordial forms of life"

See also: aboriginal primeval primaeval primordial