Example sentences for: basically

How can you use “basically” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • This is basically a covert, and mild, form of polygamy: High-status males get to monopolize more than one fertile woman.

  • Christopher, Tony's protégé, has a new gig as an SEC compliance officer involving some complicated scheme to dump crummy stock on unsuspecting widows and shut-ins, but basically he's the same asshole junkie he always was, and has taken to fighting in bars with Ariana, his girlfriend.

  • For one thing, the federal government's National Drug Control Strategy for 1996 says that the addict population is basically stable.

  • At the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, brain death confirmation is basically defined by the three protocols mentioned previously.

  • For example, there is not only affirmation by demonstration (ergo, hence, therefore, accordingly , but there is also documentation by postulation (it can be assumed, we can suppose) and also validation by synthesization (basically, in truth, in a very real sense) as well as verification by substitution (that is to say, in other words, in short) . Similarly, there is not only confutation by disputation (on the contrary, notwithstanding, however, nevertheless) , but there is also negation by concession (despite, although, allowing that) and also, not least, refutation by capitulation (it might be argued, it would be easy to conclude) .


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