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534 examples of Crude in a sentence

Sticking wires into the brain is obviously rather crude.
These crude tools were around for thousands of centuries, until around 1.4 million years ago when Homo erectus started shaping single, thin stone blades, sometimes rounded ovals, but often in what are to our eyes an arresting, symmetrical pointed leaf or teardrop form.
But the truth is that, on average, turning that gunk into crude oil produces about three times more greenhouse gas pollution than it does to produce conventional oil in Canada.
We treat these patients in a rather crude fashion at this point in time.
It looks like crude oil.
The bombsights that were available were incredibly crude.
Now actually, this is quite crude in comparison to our regular inner ear.
The most kind of crude way in which we have it, are things like horoscopes.
A hundred years ago we were looking at coal, of course, and we were looking at whale oil and we were looking at crude oil.
So at that point, 1912, we selected crude oil over whale oil and some more coal.
If you had an acute congestive heart failure, they could bleed a pint of blood from you by opening up an arm vein, giving you a crude leaf preparation of digitalis and then giving you oxygen by tent.
And the second thing is that an ant's ability to assess this pattern must be very crude because no ant can do any sophisticated counting.
Purists may feel that fiction dissipates the quest of real human understanding, that film is too crude to tell a complex and detailed history, or that filmmakers always serve drama over truth.
It's in its early stages, and it's crude by some measures, but in fact, 20 years ago, we were at nothing.
So of course, this is a very crude machine, but we're working on a micro-scale version of these, and hopefully the cubes will be like a powder that you pour in.
But our attempts at doing this are crude and blundering compared to the fine-grained specificity of the parasites.
I think the answer is a pretty simple one and therefore crude and contentious.
Never rude or crude at all.
Design-wise, it manages to both be too crude and have too many details at the same time, which if you were trying for that, you wouldn't be able to do it, and it just looks bad at a distance, but having deep meaning puts that element in the plus column.
The first, most crude model of this is when one vehicle sees a construction zone, having another know about it so it can be in the correct lane to avoid some of the difficulty.
Scientists, including SETI researchers, often tend to make very crude estimates and acknowledge that there are very large uncertainties in these estimates, in order to make progress.
Internet searches for heart function, point to crude models, diagrams or animations that don't really show how it works.
These seemingly crude methods of search and retrieval are, in fact, so useful that they are applied in computer models to obtain optimal solutions from decentralized elements, working randomly and exchanging simple information.
It's a crude but convenient proxy for more important factors, like muscle mass, enzyme level, genetic traits they just don't have time to look for.
What if, instead of using race as a crude proxy for some more important factor, doctors actually investigated and addressed that more important factor?
With the Italian Renaissance's renewed admiration for Ancient Greece and Rome, the more recent style began to seem crude and inferior in comparison.
But also, they're spatially crude.
And nature's not crude like us, just hacking away.
And that leads me to the thought that all of these pieces start off in my own mind, in my heart, and I do my best at finding ways to express them with materials, and it always feels really crude.
If you use other kinds of microbes, they will eat petroleum spirits and crude oil.
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