How to Use baseline in a Sentence
baseline
noun- The experiment is meant only to provide a baseline for other studies.
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That might be the new baseline for short-term rates soon.
— Andy Kessler, WSJ, 31 July 2022 -
For the Johnsons and their dogs, mealtimes are the baseline.
— Outside Online, 26 July 2022 -
To be a fan of endurance sports in the modern era is to live with a baseline level of skepticism.
— Alex Hutchinson, Outside Online, 22 Oct. 2024 -
Raymond shot up out of his seat, jogged to the baseline and began warming up as the crowd stirred with excitement.
— Adam Baum, The Enquirer, 19 July 2022 -
This is a look at where those gains and losses could happen this time for each side, using the 2020 vote as our baseline.
— Craig Gilbert, Journal Sentinel, 24 Oct. 2024 -
Sharpe missed his first two shots — both threes — on Thursday and committed a turnover before sinking a fadeaway jumper from the right baseline.
— oregonlive, 9 July 2022 -
While this winter’s numbers are certainly good news in the short-term, Pelton warns against normalizing a new baseline.
— Wired, 9 July 2022 -
Remarkably, the activity of natural killer cells returns to baseline levels after one night of normal sleep.
— Dr. Peter H. Diamandis, TIME, 4 Nov. 2024 -
Starting with the skeletal shape and negative space as a baseline, Selon and his team could add vein-like root systems and dark but vibrant shades of green into the details of Rio’s road look.
— Sarah Shachat, IndieWire, 30 Oct. 2024 -
If the 2014 report is a baseline for the facility’s condition, however, the prognosis doesn’t seem good.
— Kaitlin Durbin, cleveland, 31 July 2022 -
This way-too-early projection is mostly the default at each position, providing a baseline of how things look with more than a month before the August 30 cutdown.
— Dan Labbe, cleveland, 26 July 2022 -
In the United States, the baseline of risk is a 100-year event.
— Justine Calma, The Verge, 29 Sep. 2023 -
Two areas where the game will be won and lost: the 3-point line and the baseline.
— Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Nov. 2023 -
Besides the throw was high and way up the third baseline.
— Paul Hoynes, cleveland, 3 Sep. 2023 -
Stand behind the baseline on the right side to start your serve.
— Machines Agency, The Salt Lake Tribune, 11 Oct. 2022 -
Last year’s scores were the baseline against which progress was gauged this year.
— Mandy McLaren, BostonGlobe.com, 19 Sep. 2023 -
That means there isn’t a baseline of, say, 100 yards per game.
— Chris Perkins, Sun Sentinel, 14 Sep. 2022 -
Williams won the coin toss, shook her long legs a little loose, and walked to the baseline to warm up.
— Louisa Thomas, The New Yorker, 2 Sep. 2022 -
All of this leads to poor-quality sleep and the need for more than the baseline for your age.
— Jeffrey Kluger, TIME, 8 Oct. 2024 -
While Duncomb was on a knee on the baseline, IU sped the other way.
— Tyler Tachman, The Indianapolis Star, 21 Dec. 2022 -
As for her playing style, Ahn pounds away from the baseline.
— Don Norcross, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Aug. 2022 -
The Celtics were in Oakland and the great Nate Thurmond was driving on the left baseline.
— Bob Ryan, BostonGlobe.com, 21 Oct. 2022 -
In the ninth game of the second set, Djokovic took a hard fall behind the baseline and was shaken up.
— Adam Zagoria, Forbes, 16 July 2023 -
But even rises and falls just bring most workers back to the baseline—which isn’t a bad place to be.
— Jane Thier, Fortune, 22 Dec. 2023 -
What happens when that warmth becomes the new baseline for a wider swath of ocean?
— Dennis Romero, NBC News, 29 Nov. 2023 -
However, the baseline of opinions of the Founders has changed since that time.
— Craig Bruce Smith, Time, 21 Oct. 2022 -
That point total seems like a fair baseline for Killers of the Flower Moon, awards-wise.
— Vulture, 25 Oct. 2023 -
So this is kind of the baseline work that everything would, would launch from.
— Staff Reports, cleveland, 14 Oct. 2022 -
Poole used both hands to push Green away, then Green punched Poole in the face and sent the fourth-year guard into the wall behind the baseline.
— Janie McCauley, BostonGlobe.com, 12 Oct. 2022
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