Example sentences for: rudiments

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

  • And yet it's evident that J.K. Rowling is a formidably talented--and, more important, a rigorously competent--novelist, much better at the rudiments of effective fiction writing than any six American novelists under 50.

  • With little tax revenue, the government can't provide even the rudiments of a social safety net or pay its bills.

  • The so-called simplified respelling is what I usually refer to as the Moo Goo Gai Pan school of phonetic transcription, concoted for those too lazy to learn even the simplest rudiments of phonetic transcription (which used to be taught in high-school English Courses during the few hours spent on How to Use the Dictionary).

  • T>he Dream Life of Balso Snell seems to have taught him the rudiments of literary form, and in his next two novels, Miss Lonelyhearts (1933) and A Cool Million (1934), he funneled this half-hysterical personality of his into some reasonably disciplined yet fully grotesque story lines--in the case of Miss Lonelyhearts , the noir daily life of a cynical Christian advice columnist, and in the case of A Cool Million , the adventures of a Horatio Alger-type character.

  • They were trained in the rudiments of emergency response.


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