Example sentences for: basically

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

  • . . . [T]he DCI finds himself alone at the table, with the other princip[als] basically saying 'we'll go along with your decision Mr. Director,' and implicitly saying that the Agency will hang alone if the attack doesn't get Bin Ladin."

  • John Travolta's empty nightclub impersonation of Bill Clinton in Primary Colors (1998) had one positive result: It gave him a jump-start on Jan Schlichtmann, the reckless personal injury lawyer at the center of A Civil Action . Travolta's Schlichtmann is much more redolent of Clinton: slick and selfish and corrupt in lots of ways but basically on the side of the angels, too proud and arrogant to change tactics when all is certainly lost.

  • Though NATO damaged civil infrastructure, the Serb army remained basically intact.

  • Critics are pleasantly surprised by Wolfe's unconventional conclusion, based on in-depth interviews with 200 middle-class Americans, that mainstream America is tolerant, pragmatic, and basically liberal (except when it comes to gays).

  • Basically this is the propaganda machinery of war being revved up in peacetime, which is one reason the rhetoric is so overheated and so full of martial metaphors.


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