How to Use basis in a Sentence

basis

noun

• The company does not hire employees on the basis of their race, sex, age, or religion.
• The chart also shows that on a year/year basis, the growth in compensation has been falling and has now approached 4%.
  — Robert Barone, Forbes, 12 Oct. 2024
• As for offense, minor league players attempted more and stole more bases in 2022.
  — USA Today, 28 Mar. 2023
• Rickey Henderson once stole 130 bases in a single season.
  — Devin Gordon, New York Times, 30 Mar. 2023
• The soldiers then moved to multiple military bases in Russia's eastern region.
  — Cybele Mayes-Osterman, USA TODAY, 24 Oct. 2024
• This is the basis of the monetary system that prevails throughout the world today under the reign of the Almighty Dollar.
  — Adam Rowe, WSJ, 31 Mar. 2023
• Conscription is mandatory for most Israeli citizens, men and women, and only a few young people dare to refuse on moral basis.
  — Ivana Kottasová, CNN, 12 Oct. 2024
• Ruiz, who stole 85 bases in the minors last season, not only made the first-to-home dash with the winning run but robbed Trout of a hit with a diving catch in right-center.
  — John Shea, San Francisco Chronicle, 30 Mar. 2023
• For a solid 20 years now, the monocultural figure has been in headlines on a weekly basis – sometimes daily, sometimes hourly – for just about every reason an artist can be.
  — Andrew Unterberger, Billboard, 24 Oct. 2024
• Notre Dame needs to get Dean West on the bases to disrupt the Bearcats.
  — Eric Sondheimer, Los Angeles Times, 8 May 2023
• Vest then walked Jimenez on six pitches to load the bases.
  — Ryan Ford, Detroit Free Press, 10 Sep. 2023
• Nothing was going to stop Ice on a mad dash around the bases.
  — John Maffei, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Apr. 2024
• All three runs were charged to Morris, who left with the bases loaded and two outs.
  — Matt Jones, Arkansas Online, 29 Apr. 2023
• His smooth glide around the bases after clearing the Green Monster.
  — Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 28 Aug. 2023
• Some of the brand’s bedding, bed bases, and pillows are included in the sale, too.
  — Sara Coughlin, SELF, 6 Feb. 2024
• The horse hit a ball off the wall and hoofed it around the bases for an inside-the-park homer (no one went first-to-third like Mister Ed).
  — Kirk Kenney, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Jan. 2024
• Five years of fieldwork in Manchuria formed the basis of her thesis.
  — Naï Zakharia, New York Times, 23 Dec. 2023
• After a single and E4, BC has the bases loaded with one out.
  — Michael Casagrande | [e-mail], al, 5 June 2023
• The Grizzlies loaded the bases in the fourth inning with no outs, but Hicks struck out the next three batters.
  — James Weber, The Enquirer, 14 May 2023
• The Mustangs loaded the bases with no outs and Ryan Williams plated the first run by taking a pitch to back.
  — Charles Baggarly, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 2 June 2024
• When the bases are empty, the pitcher has 15 seconds to start his motion.
  — Tania Ganguli, New York Times, 28 Oct. 2023
• On an episode-by-episode basis, the third season of The Bear is as good as anything the show has ever done.
  — Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 June 2024
• The Mavericks left the bases loaded in the second inning on a walk and a pair of hit batsmen.
  — John Maffei, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 June 2023
• The area also hosts the main bases of the Northern Fleet, including submarines.
  — Bloomberg News, TIME, 5 Apr. 2024
• So even if the yield on a CD may be a bit higher, on an after-tax basis the T-bill might net you more.
  — Jeanne Sahadi, CNN, 3 May 2023
• Dnipro, a large city in central Ukraine, is nowhere near the front lines and yet the conflict is felt here on a daily basis.
  — Ivana Kottasová, CNN, 1 Mar. 2024
• Remember to use the same card over the course of a day or week, because the caps are applied on a card-by-card basis.
  — Jon Healey, Los Angeles Times, 16 June 2023
• This is a comfort to those who have so far only assumed this on a hunch basis.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 2 Mar. 2024
• There was no shortage of traffic on the bases for the Brewers all afternoon.
  — Journal Sentinel, 12 Apr. 2023
• Hernandez got out of the inning with a strikeout and a groundout to leave the bases loaded for the Spartans in the top of the first inning.
  — Breven Honda, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 May 2023

Last Updated: 20 Nov 2024