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.
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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 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
  • 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
  • If all of that is rudimentary and old hat to you, the spa offers more esoteric treatments.
    — Carole Sovocool, Robb Report, 22 Dec. 2023
  • Some elephants have been known to make rudimentary tools with their trunks to scratch themselves, repel insects, or even block roads.
    — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 12 Apr. 2023
  • Johnson said survival was unlikely based on the remote location of the crash, and rudimentary photos of the site that the U.S. Coast Guard was able to provide.
    — Annie Berman, Anchorage Daily News, 3 Sep. 2023
  • Whatever was lost on these rocks - iron spears, leather shoes or rudimentary straps - was swallowed by the ice, never to reappear.
    — Rick Noack, Anchorage Daily News, 1 Nov. 2022
  • Whatever was lost on these rocks — iron spears, leather shoes or rudimentary straps — was swallowed by the ice, never to reappear.
    — Rick Noack, Washington Post, 1 Nov. 2022
  • What’s the rudimentary element of a country and western song?
    — Ariana Quihuiz, Peoplemag, 8 Sep. 2023
  • Their four-wheel-drive systems can dig and claw through the deep sand much more effectively compared to the more rudimentary rear-wheel-drive Class 10 machines.
    — Matt Crisara, Popular Mechanics, 1 Dec. 2022
  • On a mostly bare stage without makeup or costumes, the art of acting is reduced to its purest rudimentary state.
    — Jordan Riefe, Los Angeles Times, 13 Jan. 2023
  • Much of the research out in the public record now was conducted at a time when electronic resources were much more rudimentary.
    — Emma Green, The New Yorker, 5 Jan. 2024
  • But near the top of my list is: that people gain even a rudimentary understanding of deterrence.
    — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 9 Feb. 2022
  • In it, he is seen emerging shirtless from a small, thatched hut, carrying a rudimentary stone hatchet.
    — New York Times, 6 Apr. 2022
  • The whole thing can be a nice introduction to rudimentary programming for some.
    — Eric Griffith, PCMAG, 30 June 2023
  • Some were waving white flags; a few of the most elderly and infirm were pushed on rudimentary carts as Israeli troops positioned on tanks watched on.
    — Loay Ayyoub, Washington Post, 18 Nov. 2023
  • Now nearly any adult in Texas can be armed in public without the need for training, background checks, or rudimentary guidance.
    — Rachel Monroe, The New Yorker, 23 Sep. 2023
  • The wooden cover is blighted with nicks and scratches, so much so that the rudimentary mountain goat logo is difficult to make out.
    — Julie Jag, The Salt Lake Tribune, 4 Aug. 2023
  • Lean startups take a rudimentary product and rapidly test it on prospective clients.
    — Yec, Forbes, 5 May 2022

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