Sentence examples for primitive times from inspiring English sources

They have been traditionally used for several non-food applications mainly coatings since primitive times.

In primitive times, scouts were sent out to observe neighbouring villages and report back," he said.

From primitive times, the floor has remained the common surface for sitting and sleeping in Japanese architecture.

I mean that we must not long for the more primitive times, thinking that they were a more natural landscape for man.

It is considered a symbol of cultural unity on the island, which is in the Indian Ocean, and since primitive times has been considered a sign of peace.

In primitive times, crushers were small, hand-operated pestles and mortars, and grinding was done by millstones turned by men, horses, or waterpower.

Superiority, not discovery, is the real appeal of time travel: the fantasy that a person can go back to a more primitive time and outwit the locals with new gadgets and modern ideas.

One theory traces the roots of fan psychology to a primitive time when human beings lived in small tribes, and warriors fighting to protect tribes were true genetic representatives of their people, psychologists say.

The development of doctrine, the development of the notions of Peter himself, the idea that certain theology of the letter seem to look later than the most primitive time of early Christianity.

It's like something out of a more primitive time in classical music, like those 19th-century recitals that would go on for sweaty, inspired hours full of bravura display and feverish, indiscriminate cheers.

The over-all experience of my own hajj, sixteen years ago, instilled a conviction in me that has remained to this day: Islam was the most progressive of the major religions when it was introduced, and for a few more centuries, when it flowered intellectually, but it seems now to be permanently moored in an earlier, more primitive time.