PRIMEVAL in a Sentence

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The archaeologist claimed that the skeleton was primeval origin, though in fact it was the remains of a modern day monkey.

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 Meanings and Examples of PRIMEVAL
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
primeval
 a.  ancient; primitive; belonging to the first or earliest age; original or ancient
Classic Sentence:
1  It straggled onward into the mystery of the primeval forest.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In XVI. A FOREST WALK
2  But his greatest trials were in the churchyard, which had the appearance of a primeval forest, with a kind of small ecclesiastical wash-house on one side, and a turnpike gate on the other.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XXXI
3  It was the primeval voice sounding loud in the ear of the present moment.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 9
4  The shade of the original Kurtz frequented the bedside of the hollow sham, whose fate it was to be buried presently in the mold of primeval earth.
Heart of Darkness By Joseph Conrad
Context  Highlight   In III
Example Sentence:
1  The archaeologist claimed that the skeleton was primeval origin, though in fact it was the remains of a modern day monkey.