Sentences with carnal
car·nal
C c - Their ruling passion is that of carnal love.
- carnal pleasures.
- Pascoe has not yet served the one-day sentence for carnal knowledge or a related two-week sentence imposed for firearms offences.
- Mr Halloran, a former head of the homicide squad, was charged with three counts of unlawful carnal knowledge.
- A man of secular, rather carnal, leanings.
- Excessive use has been blamed for insanity and, of course, it is said to stimulate carnal as well as other appetites.
- Carnal implies relation to the body or flesh as the seat of basic physical appetites, now esp. sexual appetites, and usually stresses absence of intellectual or moral influence [carnal lust]; fleshly, expressing less censure, stresses these appetites and their gratification as natural to the flesh [fleshly frailty]; sensual stresses relation to or preoccupation with gratifying the bodily senses and usually implies grossness or lewdness [sensual lips]; animal is applied to the physical nature of humankind as distinguished from intellectual and spiritual nature, and now rarely carries a derogatory implication [animal spirits]