Sentence example with the word 'rudiments'

rudiments

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Definition n. a statement of fundamental facts or principles

Last update: February 29, 2016


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Of Kirkby, from whom he learned the rudiments of English and Latin grammar, he speaks gratefully, and doubtless truly, so far as he could trust the impressions of childhood.   [Please select]

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Where there were no schools, fathers and mothers of the better kind gave their children the rudiments of learning.   [Please select]

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He can't play with the people who play here; he doesn't know the rudiments of play.   [Please select]

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And as I thought of this I began to see the rudiments of a desperate plan.   [Please select]

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At this date (1922) we know only the rudiments of serpent intelligence and temperament.   [verb]

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He received the rudiments of his education at Cambridge, and was afterwards placed at Oxford to finish it.   [Please select]

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These rudiments of limbs are sometimes inherited, as has been observed in a dog.   [Please select]

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With polled Suffolk cattle, "rudiments of horns can often be felt at an early age" (24/83.)   [Please select]

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Here they lived in comfort, and here Charles gained more than the rudiments of an education, his earliest teacher being his mother, who instructed him not only in English, but in Latin also.   [Please select]

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Slowly she learned the rudiments of the only common medium of thought exchange which her companions possessed--the language of the great apes.   [Please select]

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