Sample Sentences forrudimentary (editor-reviewed)
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She had only a rudimentary grasp of algebra, so the teacher reviewed the basics.rudimentary = basic and incomplete
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The campsite had rudimentary shelters—just tarps and poles.rudimentary = basic and rough
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Brooks was laid on a stretcher, placed on a jeep, and driven to a rudimentary, one-room infirmary. (source)rudimentary = very basic (minimal)
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In just a few minutes, he had made a rudimentary pipe bomb. (source)rudimentary = basic level (not sophisticated or advanced)
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It violates rudimentary police procedure. (source)rudimentary = basic
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Nuance, strategy, and anything beyond the rudimentaries of technique were wasted on Chris. (source)rudimentaries = very basics
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However, he was the able-bodied servant I needed, and, poor wizard though he is, Wormtail was able to follow the instructions I gave him, which would return me to a rudimentary, weak body of my own, a body I would be able to inhabit while awaiting the essential ingredients for true rebirth... (source)rudimentary = very basic (minimal)
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If you attentively regard almost any quadruped's spine, you will be struck with the resemblance of its vertebrae to a strung necklace of dwarfed skulls, all bearing rudimental resemblance to the skull proper.† (source)
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Sophie's university instructors, while presenting computer encryption methods for securing data, praised modern cryptologists like Zimmerman and Schneier but failed to mention that it was Leonardo who had invented one of the first rudimentary forms of public key encryption centuries ago. (source)rudimentary = early stage
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They seemed to me to be rudimental, burrowing men, still standing on their defence, awaiting their transformation.† (source)
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For the first time in your rudimentary little life, you have a purpose.† (source)
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Two or three times, even, to the great astonishment of his friends, he had, when Aramis allowed some rudimental error to escape him, replaced a verb in its right tense and a noun in its case.† (source)
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I dutifully recorded his anxious observations as best I could, in my rudimentary language.† (source)
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Also forget not the strange fact that of all things of ill-savor, Cologne-water, in its rudimental manufacturing stages, is the worst.† (source)
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"It's a little rudimentary, but this book helped to teach me what it is to be human," he says.† (source)
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Hiro, who has a rudimentary knowledge of electrical stuff, acts as gofer and limp-dicked adviser.† (source)
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