How to Use baseline in a Sentence

baseline

noun

• The experiment is meant only to provide a baseline for other studies.
• They are also supposed to set baseline rules that safeguard the integrity of the sport.
  — Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 9 Dec. 2024
• Prices rose significantly last spring, so the increase now from the year prior is starting from a higher baseline.
  — Jeanna Smialek, New York Times, 11 May 2022
• Meeting baseline staffing or maintenance standards may keep the lights on, but exceeding them can unlock outsized gains.
  — Stephen Wunker, Forbes, 12 Dec. 2024
• How much can possibly be accomplished in a single semester, especially when the baseline is low?
  — Ryan Craig, Forbes, 13 May 2022
• Going to the basket in transition, Booker took a body bump from the bigger Finney-Smith and hit the floor hard on the baseline.
  — Duane Rankin, The Arizona Republic, 11 May 2022
• Those speedy newcomers, combined with the savvy veterans, will allow the team to shuffle lineups and ruffle opponents from one baseline to the other.
  — Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 6 May 2022
• But with Uplift, the curriculum provides a neutral baseline for discussing life’s deepest questions and for listening to kids’ questions.
  — The Salt Lake Tribune, 3 May 2022
• Her road trips have been very successful of late as Swiatek, tight to the baseline, imposes her rhythm and shrinks the open space: walking briskly between points and setting a torrid pace once points begin.
  — New York Times, 24 May 2022
• In the United States, the baseline of risk is a 100-year event.
  — Justine Calma, The Verge, 29 Sep. 2023
• Two areas where the game will be won and lost: the 3-point line and the baseline.
  — Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Nov. 2023
• Besides the throw was high and way up the third baseline.
  — Paul Hoynes, cleveland, 3 Sep. 2023
• That might be the new baseline for short-term rates soon.
  — Andy Kessler, WSJ, 31 July 2022
• Stand behind the baseline on the right side to start your serve.
  — Machines Agency, The Salt Lake Tribune, 11 Oct. 2022
• Last year’s scores were the baseline against which progress was gauged this year.
  — Mandy McLaren, BostonGlobe.com, 19 Sep. 2023
• That means there isn’t a baseline of, say, 100 yards per game.
  — Chris Perkins, Sun Sentinel, 14 Sep. 2022
• Williams won the coin toss, shook her long legs a little loose, and walked to the baseline to warm up.
  — Louisa Thomas, The New Yorker, 2 Sep. 2022
• For the Johnsons and their dogs, mealtimes are the baseline.
  — Outside Online, 26 July 2022
• All of this leads to poor-quality sleep and the need for more than the baseline for your age.
  — Jeffrey Kluger, TIME, 8 Oct. 2024
• And that, my friends, should give you at least a baseline for what The Deep gets up to this season.
  — Nick Romano, EW.com, 2 June 2022
• While Duncomb was on a knee on the baseline, IU sped the other way.
  — Tyler Tachman, The Indianapolis Star, 21 Dec. 2022
• As for her playing style, Ahn pounds away from the baseline.
  — Don Norcross, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Aug. 2022
• The Celtics were in Oakland and the great Nate Thurmond was driving on the left baseline.
  — Bob Ryan, BostonGlobe.com, 21 Oct. 2022
• In the ninth game of the second set, Djokovic took a hard fall behind the baseline and was shaken up.
  — Adam Zagoria, Forbes, 16 July 2023
• But even rises and falls just bring most workers back to the baseline—which isn’t a bad place to be.
  — Jane Thier, Fortune, 22 Dec. 2023
• What happens when that warmth becomes the new baseline for a wider swath of ocean?
  — Dennis Romero, NBC News, 29 Nov. 2023
• Duren, meanwhile, cut toward the rim from the right baseline.
  — Shawn Windsor, Detroit Free Press, 8 July 2022
• However, the baseline of opinions of the Founders has changed since that time.
  — Craig Bruce Smith, Time, 21 Oct. 2022
• That point total seems like a fair baseline for Killers of the Flower Moon, awards-wise.
  — Vulture, 25 Oct. 2023
• So this is kind of the baseline work that everything would, would launch from.
  — Staff Reports, cleveland, 14 Oct. 2022

Last Updated: 30 Dec 2024