How to use "primitive" in sentences with meaning in English and Hindi

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Example sentences for "primitive" in popular movie and book plots

  • He has created a design for a primitive elevator, and has built a small model of this device.  - Kate & Leopold
  • In 2241, the primitive town Arroyo suffers the worst drought on record.  - Fallout 2
  • Regardless of this inner antagonism, rapid progress took root and primitive life forms evolved to plants, animals, and humans.  - Terranigma
  • At the close of the story, Poole and other humans land on Europa to start peaceful relations with the primitive native Europans.  - 3001: The Final Odyssey
  • They use a more primitive robot to find Speedy and try to analyze what happened to it.  - Runaround (story)
  • He realizes he is losing his human reason and compassion, and is now being driven by primitive impulses he cannot control.  - The Fly (1986 film)
  • As the Enterprise approaches Organia, Spock briefs Kirk, calling it a primitive society.  - Errand of Mercy
  • She then travels to the (fictional) primitive town of Willstown in the Queensland outback, where Joe has become manager of a cattle station.  - A Town Like Alice
  • However, the regimens and "Poussin Meter" (a primitive metronome) take a toll on Weiss' heart defect.  - The Red Violin
  • She grabs her rifle (a primitive "blaster"), exits the office and angrily shoots at him twice, but misses.  - Two (The Twilight Zone)
  • He transforms into something more menacing and primitive looking.  - Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1931 film)
  • They find Pierson, still barely alive, who with his last bit of strength draws a primitive diagram in the sand with his finger, and then dies.  - I Shot an Arrow into the Air
  • The ram had been sired by Poseidon in his primitive ram-form upon Theophane, a nymph and the granddaughter of Helios, the sun-god.  - Golden Fleece
  • Diktor explains that humans in the future are handsome, cultured in a primitive fashion, but have none of the spunk of their ancestors.  - By His Bootstraps
  • The ship crash-lands on the lip of a canyon on the planet Na Pali, home of the Nali, a primitive tribal race of four-armed humanoids.  - Unreal (1998 video game)
  • Because modern technology requires a supporting infrastructure, more primitive methods are employed — for example, horses instead of tractors.  - Tunnel in the Sky

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