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Rudimentary in sentence

74 examples of Rudimentary in a sentence

And in the time since Galileo pointed that rudimentary telescope at the celestial bodies, the known universe has come to us through light, across vast eras in cosmic history.
Birds have basically rudimentary tails.
Their parents are often illiterate, and then they come to the city, and they, on their own, at night, during the weekends, they'll take a computer class, they'll take an English class, and learn really, really rudimentary things, you know, like how to type a document in Word, or how to say really simple things in English.
In their small boats, they carried only rudimentary navigational equipment and limited supplies of food and water.
If you're poor, you're more likely to live in rudimentary housing on marginal land that's poorly drained.
Cold and flu have a huge burden on our societies and on our own lives, but we don't really even take the most rudimentary precautions against it because we consider it normal to get cold and flu during cold and flu season.
It brings rudimentary banking services to places where there's no banking infrastructure.
With this image here, a comment on the Olympics in Athens, I assumed that the reader of the "New Yorker" would have some rudimentary idea of Greek art.
The printer doesn't care if it makes the most rudimentary shape or the most complex shape, and that is completely turning design and manufacturing on its head as we know it.
iPads are rudimentary.
Ancient humans even made rudimentary drills to smooth out the rough holes left behind and beeswax to plug cavities, like modern-day fillings.
However, in spite of this, our approach to vaccine design has remained pretty rudimentary.
But the nervous system of the things we make is rudimentary at best.
And that is a way to get under their belts the rudimentary components of doing this surgery.
And after mixing them, you could churn out a very rudimentary form of ink that would go into a cartridge, and now you could print with it.
And our system was rudimentary.
Now as rudimentary as this action sounds to most of you, stepping up a curb is somewhat of a challenge for those of us without ankle movement.
But once the task called for even rudimentary cognitive skill, a larger reward led to poorer performance.
In order for us to understand each other, I want to start by showing you a rudimentary, very simple magic trick.
A terrible movie that is amateurish on almost every level - a boring and derivative screenplay filled with stereotyped characters played by embarrassed actors for a director lacking the most rudimentary understanding of his craft.
The graphics were rudimentary.
It feels like Neil Marshall realized that the basic story was too poor and instantly added ingenious ideas, depth and a personalized style, whereas "The Cave"-director Bruce Hunt simply went for the most rudimentary elaboration of the screenplay that was thrown on his desk.
Anyone with rudimentary knowledge of how the world works will immediately be disgusted at the leaps we're asked to make in logic, and the so-called suspenseful buildup would be lucky to get a 3 year old to be mildly worried.
The film has occasional funny episodes, often no funnier than a dog playing with its genitals, which happened twice (an index of the slapstick, rudimentary humour of the film in general) but by the end, the film falls into an 'infinite abyss' of complete detritus and the director's egocentric ramblings which made me want to gouge my eyes out.
It has a stunning lack of even rudimentary traces of realism.
When Davis becomes convinced that guileful Isabelle is a victim of physical abuse administered by her husband, he desperately attempts to free her from what he feels is a marital trap in order that he may wed her himself, coming to believe that the only clear solution to his plight will be found in a rudimentary essay at hiring a professional assassin who will dispose of the allegedly violent Stewart.
I believe that war films should try to convey the terror of war, avoid idealism and respect some rudimentary military principles.
Camp Blood III is a vast improvement on Camp Blood II as it has sound mostly in the right places and a rudimentary plot.
And they die too easily; I suppose if a T-Rex were around in real life they probably could be felled or at least wounded by some rather rudimentary, 16th-century weaponry.
This is one of the very few movies out there which are very erotic without being pornographic, despite there being only a very rudimentary plot.
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