How to Use rudimentary in a Sentence

rudimentary

adjective

• 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 first space toilets were—in polite terms—rudimentary.
  — Theresa MacHemer, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 July 2020
• Sign Up My rudimentary read of the competition: Dixon has been the more consistent of the two in practices, but Gill has demonstrated a bigger leg.
  — Nick Kosmider, The Athletic, 5 Aug. 2024
• Bobby rescues the passenger with a rudimentary pulley system, which feels both perilous and ingenious.
  — Laura Bradley, Vulture, 25 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 6 Dec 2024