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
  • That’s a shame, and means that today’s S24 owners will need to update their devices the more rudimentary way, with a longer restart as part of the process.
    — Zak Doffman, Forbes, 9 Dec. 2024
  • 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
  • Habib at Telenav says a rudimentary windshield system could hit the road in the next five to 10 years.
    — Alex Davies, Wired, 12 Feb. 2020
  • The first rudimentary patents were filed in 1898, according to the NBDA.
    — Fortune, 20 July 2019
  • Take even the most rudimentary lessons that were lost on this president.
    — Jay Cost, Washington Examiner, 21 Jan. 2021
  • While some deepfakes seem rudimentary, the ease of use and the speed the videos can be produced raises concerns about how they could be used to blur the truth online.
    — Alyssa Newcomb, Fortune, 4 Sep. 2019
  • All the tweaks are fairly rudimentary with the option for fine-tuning.
    — Gieson Cacho, The Mercury News, 17 July 2019
  • 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 his upside may be capped by his lack of a jump shot and rudimentary offensive skills.
    — Jeremy Woo, SI.com, 14 June 2019
  • 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 fighting stripped the country of much wildlife and the parks are rudimentary, lacking lodges, visitors’ centers and roads.
    — Washington Post, 27 July 2019
  • 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
  • Brighton’s opening goal, 12 minutes in, felt so rudimentary yet so familiar.
    — Jacob Tanswell, The Athletic, 31 Dec. 2024

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