How to Use bedrock in a Sentence

bedrock

1 of 2 noun
  • His religious beliefs are the bedrock on which his life is based.
  • They dug down for 10 feet before they hit bedrock.
  • That is the bedrock upon which all else must be built.
    — Shelley Smith Special To The Democrat-Gazette, Arkansas Online, 10 Jan. 2026
  • These one-on-one bonds are the bedrock of resilience.
    — Aaron Hurst, Big Think, 12 Aug. 2025
  • Trust is the bedrock of any agreement, but there is a deficit of trust right now.
    — Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, Fortune, 20 Nov. 2023
  • Over the last 12 months, that bedrock has been fractured.
    — Abby McCloskey, Twin Cities, 5 Feb. 2026
  • The bedrock beneath the ice might also be a key player.
    — Evan Howell, Quanta Magazine, 20 Oct. 2025
  • The shifts in the bedrock are also about who the next president could be.
    — Abby McCloskey, Twin Cities, 5 Feb. 2026
  • There’s the old adage that trauma is the bedrock of great comedy.
    — Lorraine Ali, Los Angeles Times, 9 Nov. 2023
  • The lefty the brass swore was the bedrock of the future rotation.
    — Dieter Kurtenbach, Mercury News, 2 June 2026
  • The bedrock of true, solid friendship is being there for the hard things.
    — Paige McGlauflin, Fortune, 29 Sep. 2022
  • And that’s the bedrock of the whole operation.
    — Hanna Rosin, The Atlantic, 14 May 2026
  • For more than 60 years, the 'Evening News' has been a bedrock of that process.
    — CBS News, 10 Dec. 2025
  • This standard is the bedrock of our legal system and must be upheld.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Dec. 2023
  • Transparency is the bedrock of public trust.
    — Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 15 Mar. 2026
  • The second didn’t reach bedrock until around 320 feet.
    — Jan Ellen Spiegel, Hartford Courant, 23 Feb. 2026
  • The flume was hoisted by helicopter and anchored to the canyon bedrock.
    — Hayleigh Evans, AZCentral.com, 2 Oct. 2025
  • This bedrock of the community is the place to sip frozen pina coladas and kick back.
    — Zoey Goto, Travel + Leisure, 2 June 2026
  • But the West's history and land have proved his creative bedrock.
    — Lynn Elber, Arkansas Online, 15 Nov. 2022
  • Though crime remains the bedrock of new series orders, si-fi, in contrast haș edged down.
    — John Hopewell, Variety, 25 July 2023
  • Those bedrock principles are in peril.
    — Dan Gooding, MSNBC Newsweek, 6 Oct. 2025
  • Better yet, those bedrocks are as plentiful as ever.
    — MSNBC Newsweek, 27 Nov. 2025
  • Crime is going to continue be a bedrock for many platforms, many buyers.
    — John Hopewell, Variety, 25 Feb. 2026
  • Religious freedom is the bedrock of this country.
    — Mara H. Gottfried, Twin Cities, 23 Jan. 2026
  • They were created by large ice sheets which carved out the area's bedrock during a glacial period.
    — Molly McArdle, Travel + Leisure, 22 Mar. 2023
  • And yet, this bedrock assumption seems to conflict with the universe that surrounds us.
    — Charlie Wood, Quanta Magazine, 26 Sep. 2022
  • The robot was sent through it to examine the glacier's grounding line, where ice is in contact with bedrock.
    — George Petras, USA Today, 16 Feb. 2023
  • And graham crackers, Lord knows, are the bedrock of summer pies like lemon icebox.
    — Anne Byrn, Southern Living, 22 Dec. 2025
  • For all three, though, the path to becoming bedrock pieces of a winning franchise wasn’t always clear.
    — Nick Kosmider, New York Times, 11 Sep. 2025
  • Cenotes are freshwater sinkhole caves formed from the collapse of limestone bedrock.
    — Ryan Brennan april 4, Miami Herald, 4 Apr. 2026

bedrock

2 of 2 adjective
  • People with disabilities know bedrock truths most of us ignore.
    — Paul Daugherty, Cincinnati.com, 19 May 2020
  • Bedrock office buildings switch between four scents, depending on season.
    — Georgea Kovanis, Detroit Free Press, 8 July 2017
  • But the best guides are experience and bedrock economic principles.
    — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 19 Oct. 2017
  • Before a single brick is laid, teams of scientists assemble on scene to investigate a litany of details, from bedrock depth to soil chemistry.
    — Maya Wei-Haas, Smithsonian, 7 Feb. 2017
  • Meanwhile, the once-bedrock issue of Obamacare repeal has faded as a unifying plank among most of the GOP’s rank-and-file voters.
    — Benjamin Hart, Daily Intelligencer, 22 July 2017
  • Now, even the bedrock idea of self-determination is endangered in Libya, with foreign powers — not just Libyans — seeking to control the country’s fate.
    — Washington Post, 25 Feb. 2021
  • The Beneficial renovation is both a shrine to one of democracy’s bedrock values, trial by jury — and to Kline’s career.
    — Inga Saffron, Philly.com, 3 June 2018
  • Partisan feuds over climate change, clear-cutting and bedrock federal environmental policies are undermining efforts to confront the rapidly swelling fire money dilemma.
    — Evan Halper, latimes.com, 18 Oct. 2017
  • After the dedication, Ralph Lewis, a former state geologist, and Tony Irving, a forest ecologist, will host a short walk pointing out how bedrock and glacial geology shaped the land.
    — Peter Marteka, courant.com, 2 Sep. 2017
  • The case sparked ferocious debate over his actions and the controversial prisoner exchange that led to his release in 2014, challenging the military's bedrock principle of never leaving a soldier behind.
    — Alex Horton, Alaska Dispatch News, 3 Nov. 2017
  • The case sparked ferocious debate over his actions and the controversial prisoner exchange that led to his release in 2014, challenging the military’s bedrock principle of never leaving a soldier behind.
    — Alex Horton, Washington Post, 3 Nov. 2017
  • Bergdahl's case sparked ferocious debate over his actions and the controversial prisoner exchange that led to his release in 2014, challenging the military's bedrock principle of never leaving a soldier behind.
    — The Washington Post, cleveland.com, 3 Nov. 2017
  • One of our nation’s bedrock environmental laws, NEPA mandates inclusion of the public’s voice and environmental reviews in government decision making.
    — Wes Siler, Outside Online, 26 Mar. 2020
  • The American Prairie Reserve’s partial retreat from conservation’s traditional separation of humans and nature—a bedrock principle of conservation for most of the past century—is not just an accommodation.
    — Christopher Preston, The Atlantic, 9 Apr. 2020

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