CORPOREAL in a Sentence

Learn CORPOREAL from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
71 example sentences for CORPOREAL, such as:
1. A private is subordinate to a corporal.
2. As punishment,the corporal was demoted to private.
3. Judy works for a large American chemical corporation.
4. It is a legal fiction that a corporation is a person.
5. A teacher should not give students corporal punishment.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of CORPOREAL
corporeal
 a.  bodily; of a material nature; tangible
Classic Sentence: (34 in 3 pages)
1  It was mournful, indeed, to witness the subjugation of that vigorous spirit to a corporeal infirmity.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVII
2  There was a corporeal humility in looking up at him; and a white man standing before him seemed a white flag come to beg truce of a fortress.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 27. Knights and Squires.
3  I suppose now you do not believe in corporeal transference.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIV
4  Reactionary as it is, corporal punishment is better than nothing.
Notes from the Underground By Fyodor Dostoevsky
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: IX
5  I won't inflict corporal punishment on you," he says, "or put you in the rack.
The Inspector General By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In ACT IV
6  You'd look fine, said a corporal, chaffing a thin little soldier who bent under the weight of his knapsack.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VII
7  He said he would not have been taken, it was not his fault but the corporal's who had sent him to seize some horsecloths, though he had told him the Russians were there.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER X
8  I am not merely civil to him but obey him like a corporal, though I am his senior.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER V
9  And the corporal leaned against the door and offered Pierre his pipe, though whenever he offered it Pierre always declined it.
War and Peace 5 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 13: CHAPTER XI
10  Pierre inquired what was being said about leaving, and the corporal told him that nearly all the troops were starting and there ought to be an order about the prisoners that day.
War and Peace 5 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 13: CHAPTER XI
11  Sokolov, one of the soldiers in the shed with Pierre, was dying, and Pierre told the corporal that something should be done about him.
War and Peace 5 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 13: CHAPTER XI
12  And after chatting a while longer, the corporal went away.
War and Peace 5 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 13: CHAPTER XI
13  Some of the prisoners who had heard Pierre talking to the corporal immediately asked what the Frenchman had said.
War and Peace 5 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 13: CHAPTER XI
14  Just as Pierre reached the door, the corporal who had offered him a pipe the day before came up to it with two soldiers.
War and Peace 5 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 13: CHAPTER XIII
15  The corporal and soldiers were in marching kit with knapsacks and shakos that had metal straps, and these changed their familiar faces.
War and Peace 5 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 13: CHAPTER XIII
Example Sentence: (37 in 3 pages)
1  The doctor had no patience with spiritual matters: his job was to attend to his patients' corporeal problems, not to minister to their souls.
2  As punishment,the corporal was demoted to private.
3  A private is subordinate to a corporal.
4  A teacher should not give students corporal punishment.
5  After enlisting in the Marines after high school, he served as a lance corporal and tank crewman, earning three medals.
6  Persons and corporations are equivalent entity under the law.
7  They would love to ravage the land and feed the corporations the spoils until there is nothing left.
8  The bulk of the funds are supplied by some of America's largest and most powerful corporations.
9  Judy works for a large American chemical corporation.
10  Mr Hall is non-committal about the number of jobs that the development corporation has created.
11  The most distinctive institution of capitalist economies is the privately owned corporation.
12  The international corporation's headquarters is / are in Washington.
13  It is a legal fiction that a corporation is a person.
14  Their mission was to crack into the computer system of a major corporation.
15  The corporation has decided that no heavy-duty trucks are permitted to pass through the centre of the city during rush hours.