PRIMARY in a Sentence

Learn PRIMARY 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.
52 example sentences for PRIMARY, such as:
1. Health is the primary duty of life.
2. Our primary concern must be the children.
3. The disease is still in its primary stage.
4. The primary need is to identify problem areas.
5. Our primary focus this term will be on group work.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of PRIMARY
primary
 n.  one of the main flight feathers projecting along the outer edge of a bird's wing
 a.  of first rank or importance or value; direct and immediate rather than secondary
Classic Sentence:
1  Those matters are no less dishonourable than the primary one; and to that I regret to have to add that there stand involved in them certain persons whom I had hitherto believed to be honourable.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER IV
2  Therefore he has found a primary cause, that is, justice.
Notes from the Underground By Fyodor Dostoevsky
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: V
3  Spite, of course, might overcome everything, all my doubts, and so might serve quite successfully in place of a primary cause, precisely because it is not a cause.
Notes from the Underground By Fyodor Dostoevsky
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: V
4  There we have command and power in their primary form.
War and Peace 6 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 17: CHAPTER VII
5  She knew that to him, although he was the primary cause of her distress, the question of her seeing her son would seem a matter of very little consequence.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 5: Chapter 29
6  I like it very much," cried Duncan, who saw that the release of Cora was the primary object in the mind of the scout; "I like it much.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 31
7  But the sale of reddle was not Diggory's primary object in remaining on the heath, particularly at so late a period of the year, when most travellers of his class had gone into winter quarters.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: 7 A Coalition between Beauty and Oddness
8  Health is the primary duty of life.
The Importance of Being Earnest By Oscar Wilde
Context  Highlight   In FIRST ACT
9  The primary school imposed on all, the secondary school offered to all, that is the law.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER V—THE HORIZON WHICH ONE BEHOLDS FROM THE SUMMIT O...
Example Sentence: (43 in 3 pages)
1  There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.
2  Tiffany conceptualized herself as a mother, whose primary task was to feed her baby.
3  The Government has pooh-poohed the idea that primary schools will begin to select pupils.
4  The primary edifice, Mandeville Center, is about as inviting as a concrete bunker.
5  The Red Cross's primary concern is to preserve and protect human life.
6  Our primary concern must be the children.
7  Our primary concern is to provide the refugees with food and healthcare.
8  The candidates face off in a Democratic primary today.
9  The disease is still in its primary stage.
10  A primary school is the first school everybody goes to.
11  Our primary focus this term will be on group work.
12  The primary need is to identify problem areas.
13  The initial impact of the reforms will be felt most keenly in primary schools.
14  The primary aim of this course is to improve your spoken English.
15  The primary mission of industrial production managers is planning the production schedule within budgetary limitations and time constraints.