How to Use rudiment in a Sentence

rudiment

noun
  • 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
  • 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
  • That is one of the most essential rudiments to successful fly casting.
    — Bryan Hendricks, Arkansas Online, 30 July 2023
  • People helped each other, of course, with tins and bags of rudiments but everyone knew the stores were running out.
    — Time, 19 Nov. 2019
  • Thereafter rudiments of order emerged, first under Lieut.
    — Britannica Editors, Encyclopedia Britannica, 19 Mar. 2026
  • Ben Stokes came on this tour, it was said, to learn the rudiments of Test cricket, to be around the dressing room.
    — Tim Ellis, Forbes, 14 Feb. 2024
  • 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
  • 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
  • Understanding at least the rudiments of another language gives you a lot of insight into how the people of that culture view the world.
    — Inga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Feb. 2025
  • Papers like Johnson’s are beginning to build the rudiments of a theory of neural networks.
    — Quanta Magazine, 31 Jan. 2019
  • At the outset the institute will focus just on helping students understand the rudiments of AI.
    — Steven Zeitchik, HollywoodReporter, 16 Apr. 2026
  • 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
  • Shaffer had seen in Pushkin’s playlet the rudiments of a grand spectacle, framed, like so many of his plays, as a duel between two men of different generations.
    — Simon Callow, The New York Review of Books, 22 Dec. 2022
  • For every advanced community that learned the rudiments of rhythm and music, there must have been someone humming Barry Manilow.
    — Jeffrey Kluger, Discover Magazine, 11 Nov. 2019
  • 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
  • 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
  • Endosperm is only found in flowering plants, although a few close relatives like the nonflowering shrubby joint fir, Ephedra, have its rudiments.
    — Literary Hub, 25 Mar. 2026
  • 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
  • When the illness had robbed him of the ability to maintain even the rudiments of independent living, Cathy had organized his admittance there.
    — David Rabe, The New Yorker, 2 Feb. 2025
  • 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
  • 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
  • Last year, for example, Hanna and colleagues grew such cells into embryo mimics that sported a beating heart, the rudiments of a brain and spinal cord, and incipient muscles.
    — Bymitch Leslie, science.org, 17 June 2023
  • 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
  • Exposure to music education, beyond the rudiments, all too often becomes a question of whose family can afford expensive private lessons.
    — Matthew Aucoin, The Atlantic, 15 Apr. 2025
  • 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
  • In childhood, cognition centers on the acquisition of language and the rudiments of abstract reasoning, while emotional skills such as self-regulation and empathy are still taking root.
    — Andrew Serazin, Time, 14 June 2023
  • China is attempting to deprive Uighurs of their ethnolinguistic identity, the very rudiments of their nationality.
    — Michael Brendan Dougherty, National Review, 29 Nov. 2019
  • Unlike earlier musical dice games, which were designed to encourage composition, Musical Games aimed to teach the rudiments of theory.
    — JSTOR Daily, 26 Nov. 2025

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