How to Use basic amenities in a Sentence

basic amenities

plural noun
  • The soldiers had access to basic amenities and comforts.
    — Literary Hub, 23 Feb. 2026
  • Tens of thousands live in tin shacks, lacking basic amenities, such as coal for cooking and heating their homes.
    — Brittney Melton, NPR, 28 Aug. 2025
  • Each one-room cabin would have basic amenities — a bed, an air conditioner, bookshelves and lighting — but no bathroom or cooking facilities.
    — Lucas Robinson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Dec. 2025
  • Yet local communities remain among the most marginalized in the country, with tens of thousands living in tin shacks in sprawling townships lacking even the most basic amenities.
    — Tommy Trenchard, NPR, 23 Aug. 2025
  • Each one-room cabin will have basic amenities and could cost the county between $12,000 and $19,000 to build.
    — Hannah Elsmore, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Mar. 2026
  • Each one-room cabin will have basic amenities and could cost the county between $12,000 and $19,000 to build.
    — Hannah Elsmore, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Mar. 2026
  • Various parts of the community lacked basic amenities, such as streetlights and sewer lines, until the late 1990s.
    — Kamal Morgan, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 12 Dec. 2025
  • Safe parking lots come with security guards, case managers and basic amenities like restrooms, but some advocates for homeless people have said services can nonetheless be lacking.
    — Blake Nelson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Nov. 2025
  • The feasibility study suggested adding trails and basic amenities, restoring the forest, and undertaking major stabilization work.
    — Michael Wells, Kansas City Star, 27 May 2026
  • Russia regularly targets Ukraine’s capital with strikes, which have left thousands of buildings without heating and basic amenities during freezing temperatures.
    — Bloomberg News, Boston Herald, 24 Jan. 2026
  • The United Nations as well as the National Commission on Correctional Health Care call for a limit of solitary confinement to fifteen days and require basic amenities and programs.
    — Terry Kupers, Oc Register, 11 Oct. 2025
  • According to the Nigeria Bureau of Statistics, 63% of Nigerians now live in what is called multidimensional poverty — not only cash-poor but lacking access to basic amenities, with a high youth unemployment rate.
    — ABC News, 31 May 2026
  • Survivors in the earthquake-prone region are scrambling for basic amenities as the United Nations and other agencies warn of a critical need for funds, food, medical supplies and shelter, with the World Health Organization seeking funds of $4 million.
    — Mohammad Yunus Yawar, USA Today, 5 Sep. 2025

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