How to Use rudimentary in a Sentence

rudimentary

adjective
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  • This class requires a rudimentary knowledge of human anatomy.
  • When baseball was in its rudimentary stages, different teams played by different rules.
  • Some insects have only rudimentary wings.
  • At the time, the practice of medicine was rudimentary—and that’s putting it nicely.
    — Dr. Sharon Malone, TIME, 9 Apr. 2024
  • The two sit on a grassy knoll propped up by a rudimentary wooden fence.
    — Nora McGreevy, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Nov. 2021
  • In the beginning, there was the wharf, the rudimentary, workaday pier built to get goods from here to there.
    — Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 5 June 2024
  • The shacks had dirt floors, with open fires in the corners, rudimentary beds, and shelves for a few possessions.
    — Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 17 July 2023
  • Haynes relied on rudimentary wrestling moves and lots of guile that first year.
    — David Hinojosa, San Antonio Express-News, 21 Apr. 2021
  • Roku's home screen is rather rudimentary, more like a smart TV than a streamer.
    — Corey Gaskin, Ars Technica, 2 Feb. 2022
  • After the game, the senior safety emerged from the locker room with his right arm in a rudimentary sling.
    — Nathan Baird, cleveland, 3 Sep. 2021
  • Civilians clawed through the rubble with bare hands and rudimentary tools in search of survivors.
    — Babak Dehghanpisheh, Washington Post, 13 July 2022
  • While he’s got a strong arm behind the plate, his game-planning and framing are still rudimentary.
    — Dallas News, 21 Nov. 2022
  • Some of it is rudimentary, built in the 1830s, and then there are homes from the Victorian era, Queen Anne style, later Prairie style.
    — Susan Degrane, chicagotribune.com, 27 Dec. 2020
  • Take even the most rudimentary lessons that were lost on this president.
    — Jay Cost, Washington Examiner, 21 Jan. 2021
  • Below the wrestling men and birds, a small, rudimentary figure is hunched at a table, head down, like Goya’s dreaming man.
    — Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 12 Oct. 2022
  • But the one that’s now in effect makes the NFL, known for its tricky system of funny money and funnier math, seem rudimentary.
    — Jerry Brewer, Washington Post, 9 July 2024
  • Overshadowed by high-tech killing tools and the blunt power of howitzers and mortars, Ukraine’s snipers are part of a more rudimentary force: the infantry.
    — Natalia Yermak David Guttenfelder, New York Times, 1 Oct. 2023
  • The Crap is at once chaotic and defanged, with rudimentary drum machine grooves doing a poor job of taking the place of Headon.
    — Al Shipley, SPIN, 14 May 2022
  • Before the transplant, Ethan’s speech was drawn out and slow, his language skills rudimentary.
    — Adam Piore, Discover Magazine, 13 Oct. 2020
  • Instruments and equipment were too rudimentary, the ocean too vast and much of the sea bottom too difficult to reach.
    — Andrew Dubbins, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 Aug. 2022
  • The guy who pulled off some rudimentary breakdancing won the audience’s vote along with a pair of Kidz Bop pompoms.
    — Ross Raihala, Twin Cities, 2 Sep. 2024
  • So your stunt guys were jumping for real with the same type of rudimentary parachutes used during World War II?
    — Hugh Hart, Los Angeles Times, 18 June 2024
  • The site has 60 rudimentary tiny homes and 40 trailers, and is governed by a nonprofit contracted through the city.
    — Calmatters, The Mercury News, 12 Mar. 2024
  • Only the teacher sat upright on a bare tree that served as a rudimentary podium.
    — Joseph Roth, Harper's Magazine, 24 Nov. 2020
  • Well…maybe if Mastodon weren’t harder to explain than the Targaryen family tree—and the service and app weren’t so rudimentary.
    — Joanna Stern, WSJ, 9 Nov. 2022
  • The landscape is dotted by a miles-long string of rudimentary military posts tucked into the rolling hills of the Donbas region.
    — Washington Post, 19 Apr. 2022
  • The sneakers back then were pretty rudimentary—old work shoes with rubber soles.
    — Time, 28 Dec. 2022
  • The rudimentary unit consisted of a hole in the wall that sucked urine and feces into collection bags.
    — Amy Thompson, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 Oct. 2020
  • The researchers noted that a rudimentary way to perform meta-reasoning in this sphere would be to simply aggregate the answers, rather than try to analyze the respective chains.
    — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 19 Sep. 2024
  • The duo’s second feature builds on a bare-bones concept that feels more rudimentary than rustic much of the time, and yet, the filmmakers’ decisive presentation is enjoyable enough as an entrée served straight to streaming.
    — Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 3 Oct. 2024

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