How to Use primordial in a Sentence

primordial

adjective
  • What are primordial black holes?
    — Robert Lea, Space.com, 30 Nov. 2025
  • Meals that seem to reach back in time to scratch a nagging, primordial itch.
    — Los Angeles Times, 14 Sep. 2019
  • And then, as with many primordial myths, there is some body horror.
    — Kevin Purdy, Ars Technica, 21 May 2024
  • Black holes of such mass would have needed to form through primordial means.
    — Quanta Magazine, 23 Jan. 2026
  • Life has devolved to its primordial pool.
    — Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times, 16 Jan. 2026
  • Jupiter runs hot Jupiter isn’t done cooling off from its primordial days.
    — Shi En Kim, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 May 2024
  • There’s that little primordial tickle at the base of your brain.
    — Tom Vanderbilt, Outside Online, 28 Feb. 2022
  • Yet how would this primordial gas have reached Earth’s surface?
    — Tom Metcalfe, Scientific American, 2 Dec. 2023
  • But first, there is some primordial link between politicians and corn dogs.
    — The Christian Science Monitor, 9 Aug. 2019
  • There will be wacky, tacky characters, primordial wildlife at close range and run-ins with the law.
    — Ellen Morton, Washington Post, 5 July 2022
  • People come here for the views, the open space, the chance to see Earth at its most primordial.
    — Todd Plummer, Vogue, 20 Jan. 2023
  • Land is a primal word, primordial even, like lava.
    — Tommy Orange, Condé Nast Traveler, 31 Jan. 2026
  • So they were brought together in the smell of all primordial velvets.
    — Ben Woollard, JSTOR Daily, 4 Dec. 2024
  • For now, though, that crown rests solely on the tiny head of the primordial dragonfly.
    — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 24 Oct. 2022
  • In nature, they're formed from primordial germ cells and can be seen as precursors to egg cells.
    — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 21 Sep. 2018
  • The moon is much smaller than Earth, so its primordial heat should have leaked into space long ago.
    — Robin George Andrews, Scientific American, 7 Apr. 2026
  • The team also modeled what a primordial black hole would do to a planet with a liquid core.
    — Michael Irving, New Atlas, 5 Dec. 2024
  • This was the first primordial whiff of our marshmallow dispute.
    — Robert Goulder, Forbes.com, 14 Apr. 2025
  • The price of bitcoin, crypto’s primordial coin, is down 50% since this time last year.
    — Scott Nover, Quartz, 13 Feb. 2023
  • Light filters through the giant trees bathing the ferns and mosses below in a primordial green glow.
    — NBC News, 28 July 2019
  • The universe’s primordial quark-gluon plasma was, in fact, soupy.
    — Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Harpers Magazine, 24 Mar. 2026
  • One idea still in the running is that the missing matter is made of primordial black holes that formed soon after the big bang.
    — Clara Moskowitz, Scientific American, 18 Mar. 2021
  • For adoptees, who live right up against their brick walls, the proximity can be heartrending, a primordial loss.
    — Raffi Khatchadourian, The New Yorker, 15 Nov. 2021
  • George Harrison may be thought of as a holy man, but the primordial ooze his career emerges from is made of cars.
    — Kaleb Horton, Rolling Stone, 2 Apr. 2025
  • There’s always been something primordial about the show’s appeal.
    — Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 15 Jan. 2026
  • The tiniest primordial black holes would have lasted only moments, but more massive ones could still be around.
    — Quanta Magazine, 23 Jan. 2026
  • Our sense of smell is the only one that has this direct link to the area of the brain that controls emotion, a primordial area of the brain.
    — Kara Baskin, BostonGlobe.com, 23 Dec. 2022
  • Pike shuts her eyes to keep the pigment out, and Redniss plunges us into a full page of primordial darkness.
    — Max Norman, The New Yorker, 23 July 2021
  • Glass contains silica, as do sand and certain types of clay that would have been present on primordial Earth.
    — Bymitch Leslie, science.org, 30 Oct. 2024
  • The black holes could be primordial, having hung around since the maelstrom of the early universe before the first stars were born.
    — Daniel Clery, Science | AAAS, 2 Sep. 2020

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