How to Use rudiment in a Sentence

rudiment

noun

• What Sasser has found here is a kind of case law — and the rudiments of a justice system.
  — Casey Newton, The Verge, 14 Dec. 2018
• Brandt wants to plant a garden to teach addicts the rudiments of farming and growing their own food.
  — Michael Sangiacomo, cleveland.com, 11 June 2017
• People helped each other, of course, with tins and bags of rudiments but everyone knew the stores were running out.
  — Time, 19 Nov. 2019
• Although the modern player is bigger, faster and stronger, the rudiments of the game – blocking and tackling – have not changed and most likely never will.
  — Bill Pennington, New York Times, 16 Oct. 2017
• But his father dies suddenly, before passing on anything but the rudiments of the job.
  — María Gainza, Harper's magazine, 10 May 2019
• The sheer scale of the original pandemic meant that many were denied even the rudiments that medicine could offer a century ago.
  — William F. Bynum, WSJ, 4 Jan. 2019
• As The Economist went to press, rescue workers were trying to teach the children the rudiments of swimming and diving, to allow them to be guided out.
  — The Economist, 5 July 2018
• Last but definitely not least, the Baby Food Diet does not teach adults the essential rudiments of a healthy diet.
  — Dr. Manny Alvarez, Fox News, 26 May 2017
• Papers like Johnson’s are beginning to build the rudiments of a theory of neural networks.
  — Quanta Magazine, 31 Jan. 2019
• Jojo and his friend Yorki (Archie Yates)—round face, round spectacles, and an all-round delight—go off to training camp, where they are taught not only combat skills but the rudiments of racial hatred.
  — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 18 Oct. 2019
• On one such stone a pair of dotted squares flanking a thin rectangle, barely recognizable as the rudiments of a face, were enough to convey the presence of a goddess in a shrine of the first century AD.
  — James Romm, The New York Review of Books, 18 Mar. 2019
• Like all great art, this novelconsistently eludes us in leaps of grace and daring, though never without suggesting the rudiments of a path, a new way forward.
  — Dustin Illingworth, latimes.com, 31 May 2018
• The anxiety was not to escape but to stay connected, to make sure that the necessities for survival had been met, the rudiments of language grasped, the foreign mechanisms understood.
  — Rachel Cusk, Condé Nast Traveler, 2 Feb. 2017
• Our fellow great apes understand the rudiments of language, and creatures great and small — from elephants to crows — seem to possess highly organized social structures, tool-making skills and self-awareness.
  — John Wenz, Discover Magazine, 11 Feb. 2019
• Participants will learn the rudiments of dragon boating and get plenty of opportunities to improve their paddling skills.
  — John Adamian, courant.com, 26 Apr. 2017
• Older adults often enrolled in noncredit courses, addressing topics such as home-buying, disco dancing and the rudiments of hockey.
  — Matt Schudel, Washington Post, 21 Aug. 2019
• And others have quietly left their homeland with no plans to return, creating the rudiments of an overseas Saudi dissident community.
  — Summer Said, WSJ, 5 June 2018
• There are courses that focus on the team-building, professional development end of the sport, to sections devoted to the rudiments of racing, to shorter courses designed for themed outings with family, friends or colleagues.
  — John Adamian, courant.com, 26 Apr. 2017
• On the Senate Judiciary Committee, staffers from both parties are still organizing the rudiments of a confirmation process and have not yet focused on specific issues.
  — Amy Goldstein, chicagotribune.com, 8 July 2018
• Whether the nuclear test is big or small, delayed or scrapped, botched or successful, experts say the North’s program is now moving steadily beyond the rudiments of nuclear arms design, raising not only global alarms but the geopolitical stakes.
  — William J. Broad, New York Times, 22 May 2017
• No occupant of the Oval Office has ever shared the average person’s disinterest in policy, parliamentary procedure, and the rudiments of American civics to the extent that Trump does.
  — Eric Levitz, Daily Intelligencer, 15 Oct. 2017
• Two uncles, Pete and Bobby Domenick, played guitar and banjo professionally, and his uncle Bobby taught him some musical rudiments.
  — Peter Keepnews, New York Times, 24 Mar. 2020
• China is attempting to deprive Uighurs of their ethnolinguistic identity, the very rudiments of their nationality.
  — Michael Brendan Dougherty, National Review, 29 Nov. 2019
• By its conclusion, someone will likely have developed the rudiments of emotion, segueing directly into Origins, a civilization game unlike any other.
  — Dan Thurot, Ars Technica, 25 Apr. 2020
• Since 2010 the two have also led Techne, an organization that programs workshops where young, female-identified students learn the rudiments of soldering contact microphones, devising instruments, and playing together.
  — Bill Meyer, Chicago Reader, 3 Aug. 2017

Last Updated: 22 Aug 2024