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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Many Eighties pop songs get bashed for being rudimentary in sound.
  — Troy L. Smith, cleveland, 13 May 2021
• 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, Washington Post, 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, Anchorage Daily News, 1 Nov. 2022
• What’s the rudimentary element of a country and western song?
  — Ariana Quihuiz, Peoplemag, 8 Sep. 2023
• Prior studies briefly described these light-sensitive organs, though the researchers did not detect the rudimentary eyes in their scans.
  — Mindy Weisberger, CNN, 30 July 2024
• His comparison was Ken Kesey’s Acid Test multi-media show in the ‘60s, which had rudimentary live projections.
  — Chris Willman, Variety, 17 July 2024

Last Updated: 25 Sep 2024