How to Use basically in a Sentence

basically

adverb

• And of course, in our high schools, the numbers are basically the same.
  — NBC News, 5 Feb. 2023
• Jews were basically banned from the city in 1941, forced to live in a ghetto.
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 17 May 2023
• She was basically not allowed to have a lab with the men.
  — Ashraya Gupta, Scientific American, 7 Sep. 2023
• The new structures were basically built from the ruins of the old ones.
  — Demetrios Ioannou, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 Aug. 2024
• Your face and the concrete are basically close friends at that point.
  — Spin Staff, SPIN, 5 June 2023
• Or the feeds basically went out and they could be captured by clients.
  — Michael Calore, WIRED, 21 Dec. 2023
• So basically, applying SPF on the scalp with a focus to the part is not a step to be skipped.
  — Brigitt Earley, Glamour, 4 Apr. 2024
• And that was basically a stent going up into the brain to pull out a blood clot.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 24 Jan. 2024
• And, of course, Halestorm ranks as a highlight on basically any bill.
  — Jim Harrington, The Mercury News, 28 Feb. 2024
• These are basically times that display the same number on the clock.
  — Rachel Silva, ELLE Decor, 15 June 2023
• And so in this case, basically the viewer becomes the heart.
  — Janell Ross, Time, 21 Jan. 2023
• One of the hazards of long-term sweater wear is pilling — basically the age spots of fabric.
  — Madison Yauger, Peoplemag, 20 Sep. 2023
• Later, Biden held a call with mega-donors and basically told them to buzz off.
  — Anita Chabria, Los Angeles Times, 9 July 2024
• But by the end of the day Wall Street's ultimate verdict seemed to be that things are basically fine.
  — Heard Editors, WSJ, 8 Jan. 2024
• Every piece of the plot hinges on basically three lies or lies of omission.
  — Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Aug. 2023
• But a lot of it is like, basically there is no machine.
  — Rachel Tashjian, Harper's BAZAAR, 27 Mar. 2023
• These offer a table of contents, basically just a list of all the headers on the page.
  — Justin Pot, Popular Science, 20 July 2023
• Yet, everyone has been ready to put the band in the Rock Hall basically from the moment that record was released.
  — Jim Harrington, SPIN, 8 Nov. 2023
• And all my films are basically movies made on the road or travelling.
  — Nathan Taylor Pemberton, The New Yorker, 10 Dec. 2023
• In the movie Horizon is the name of a basically suburban dream.
  — Pete Hammond, Deadline, 27 June 2024
• More in the way of warmer-than-normal stuff is ahead through the weekend, even on Sunday, which is basically a washout.
  — Ian Livingston, Washington Post, 8 Dec. 2023
• Among the low-fat and plain varieties of the dairy aisle, many products are basically desserts.
  — Yasmin Tayag, The Atlantic, 1 Aug. 2024
• Now, Columbia and Brakhage couldn’t be further apart, but the idea is basically the same.
  — Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 2 Aug. 2024
• One reason is that the betting line is basically a toss-up.
  — Dallas News, 9 Feb. 2023
• Yep, there’s no doubt about it — Walton and Chewbacca are basically one and the same.
  — Chuck Schilken, Los Angeles Times, 2 Feb. 2024
• There are resistance heaters (basically, a toaster), and heat pumps, which pull heat out of the air — even cold air.
  — Ray Magliozzi, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 June 2023
• Bonne Étoile is basically a perfume for children, with notes of pear, wild rose, and white musk.
  — Tori Latham, Robb Report, 6 Nov. 2023
• From snaps of your legs in the sand to #OOTDs rocking your favorite swimsuit, beaches were basically made for the 'gram.
  — Samantha Olson, Seventeen, 1 Mar. 2023
• So the reader has to imagine that basically there are ballots in a box somewhere.
  — Steven Strogatz, Quanta Magazine, 7 Nov. 2024
• Any musician that’s been successful most of his life basically has a 15-year-old sense of humor.
  — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 5 Nov. 2024

Last Updated: 30 Nov 2024