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"Primitive" in a Sentence (23 examples)
He contends that primitive life once existed on Mars.
If you are a member of a primitive community and you wish to produce, say, food, there are two things that you must do.
The anthropologist delivered a lecture on primitive cultures.
This was quite primitive compared to that.
There are so-called primitive cultures in the jungles of the Amazon and on the island of New Guinea, and there are so-called advanced cultures in Europe, Asia, and Africa, but the languages of these cultures are all equally advanced and complex.
In primitive societies barter was used.
The primitive man was frightened at the sign of the beast.
The primitive man was frightened at the sight of a savage beast.
Primitive calculating machines existed long before computers were developed.
When the boys go camping, they enjoy living in a primitive way.
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A write-what-where primitive allows the attacker to write arbitrary data wherever they want in the memory
primitive innocence; the primitive church
it is from such primitive beings that the highest organisms now extant are the marvellously developed descendants
a primitive style of dress
By some paradoxical evolution rancour and intolerance have been established in the vanguard of primitive Christianity. Mrs. Spoker, in common with many of the stricter disciples of righteousness, was as inclement in demeanour as she was cadaverous in aspect.
The intermediate stations were of the most primitive type.
It could be said that the history of religions—from the most primitive to the most highly developed—is constituted by a great number of hierophanies, by manifestations of sacred realities.
I used primitive hearts to decorate the quilt.
primitive ideas
a primitive verb
The primitive root in "children" is "child."
Division of words. Words are primitive or radical, and derivative or compound. Of primitive words. Primitive or radical words are such as cannot be divided, or separated into parts which are significant; as man, hope, bless.
We infer that other groups of related languages, such as the Germanic (or the Slavic or the Celtic), which show a similar resemblance, have arisen in the same way; it is only an accident of history that for these groups we have no written records of the earlier state of the language, as it was spoken before the differentiation set in. To these unrecorded languages we give names like Primitive Germanic (Primitive Slavic, Primitive Celtic, and so on).
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