Examples of “primary” in a Sentence

adj Most important; main.

• The primary reason for our trip is to visit my grandparents.
• Her primary concern was her children's safety.
• The primary cause of the delay was bad weather.

adj First in a sequence or order; earliest.

• Primary education typically begins around age five.
• The primary step in the recipe is to heat the oven.
• In the primary stage of the experiment, we only collected samples.

noun An election held to choose a party's candidate before the main election.

• Voters in the state will go to the polls next week for the primary.
• The senator won the primary easily and now faces the main contest.
• He lost the primary to a younger challenger.