How to Use fundamental in a Sentence

fundamental

1 of 2 adjective

• We need to make some fundamental changes in the way we do business.
• The revolution brought about a fundamental change in the country.
• We need to address these problems on a more fundamental level.
• These ideas are of fundamental importance.
• There's a fundamental difference between these two political parties.
• The Constitution ensures our fundamental rights.
• But that goes against a lot of fundamental facts of life.
  — Stephen Engelberg, ProPublica, 18 Apr. 2020
• In a way that's such like a fundamental part of my life.
  — Corey Seymour, Vogue, 10 Aug. 2021
• Trust is a fundamental need for the success of the leader.
  — Chris Cebollero, Forbes, 26 Jan. 2022
• The role of mayflies and stoneflies in the food chain is fundamental, as well.
  — Boris Kondratieff, The Conversation, 22 Jan. 2020
• The business is a fundamental part of the creative process.
  — Eric Johnson, Recode, 20 Sep. 2018
• Has the business of law changed in any fundamental way?
  — Sam Wood, Philly.com, 16 Sep. 2017
• Which brings us to the fundamental question here: to shave or not to shave?
  — Cam Wolf, GQ, 1 Nov. 2017
• But there is a fundamental change in the nature of business.
  — Fortune Editors, Fortune, 17 Aug. 2022
• Urban says that lends itself to a fundamental question at the heart of the show.
  — Nick Romano, EW.com, 7 Apr. 2022
• Here in Michigan, where the right to vote is the most fundamental right.
  — NBC News, 1 Nov. 2020
• But the most fundamental issue with the coin is that the summit has not yet taken place.
  — Zack Beauchamp, Vox, 21 May 2018
• Trump has sought to change our global role in a fundamental way.
  — Los Angeles Times, 1 Jan. 2020
• Something fundamental and not shifting with the wind or the whim.
  — Greg Cote, miamiherald, 7 June 2018
• Such people have the same fundamental rights as the faithful.
  — Thomas Farr, WSJ, 11 Aug. 2022
• The coaches and kids just went back to work on fundamental football.
  — Ted Dunnam, Houston Chronicle, 28 Oct. 2017
• But all of them serve a fundamental purpose for the living: to guide them in their grief.
  — Teresa Mathew, The New Yorker, 9 June 2020
• The fundamental flaw in the woke logic is that it is all based on the idea that fairness means equal outcome.
  — WSJ, 25 Sep. 2020
• And among preppies, no dress shoe is as fundamental as the loafer.
  — Sam Dangremond, Town & Country, 6 Sep. 2016
• Nothing less than the fundamental right to speak freely is at stake in these cases.
  — PEOPLE.com, 1 Oct. 2021
• And this is fundamental and is the bedrock of all our actions and intentions.
  — NBC News, 14 June 2021
• Writing lyrics or at least taking part in the process is fundamental to me.
  — Billboard Italy, Billboard, 17 Mar. 2023
• The fundamental problem was how to share access to a network among many users.
  — Ben Brubaker, Quanta Magazine, 22 Mar. 2023
• And an even more fundamental question than who pays for care is: who will do it?
  — The Economist, Star Tribune, 30 Aug. 2020
• But just who owns the story — and who gets to tell it — is a fundamental question here.
  — Randee Dawn, Los Angeles Times, 26 May 2021

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fundamental

2 of 2 noun

• But the hype ran ahead of the fundamentals, and the bubble burst the next year.
  — Paul Vigna, WSJ, 8 Feb. 2020
• This rebound shows that the fundamentals of the bank are strong.
  — Kuwar Singh, Quartz India, 7 July 2019
• Campbell says the team is going to work on the fundamentals.
  — Jacob McAdams, Houston Chronicle, 19 Mar. 2018
• The sixth game of the year isn’t time to be reviewing the fundamentals of tackling.
  — Detroit Free Press, 20 Oct. 2019
• And practice is set up to go back and hammer out the fundamentals.
  — Adam Jude, The Seattle Times, 5 Nov. 2018
• Steven stresses fundamentals and learning how to play the game the right way.
  — Shelby Dermer, The Enquirer, 31 Mar. 2023
• But even a long war will not change those fundamentals.
  — Samuel Charap, Foreign Affairs, 13 July 2023
• Kind of a fundamental of a game like this to directly be able to play a friend and test out your decks.
  — Paul Tassi, Forbes, 18 Dec. 2022
• That is, is there a trend for the polling averages to move towards the fundamentals?
  — Harry Enten, CNN, 7 Apr. 2018
• But the fundamentals of their core business are not likely to change.
  — Greg Gardner and Eric D. Lawrence, Detroit Free Press, 15 Dec. 2017
• And that’s not likely to change fundamentals very much at all.
  — David Koenig, The Mercury News, 2 June 2017
• The mission is to teach the principles, fundamentals and basic skills of the game.
  — Miami Herald, 31 Jan. 2024
• The places that ignore these fundamentals will remain in decline for decades to come.
  — Indystar, Indianapolis Star, 4 Feb. 2018
• That meant slowing the game down and practicing the fundamentals.
  — Matthew Vantryon, Indianapolis Star, 15 June 2019
• But his grasp of basketball fundamentals is a work in progress.
  — Dom Amore, courant.com, 15 Feb. 2018
• Most of them turn on big fundamentals of economics and people's sense of the world.
  — Robert Costa, CBS News, 5 Nov. 2023
• Next are market fundamentals, like the ratios of home prices to rents and incomes.
  — The Economist, 29 June 2019
• There’s some haircut in the short term, but in the long term the firm’s fundamentals are excellent.
  — John Detrixhe, Quartz, 11 Mar. 2020
• The city has strong fundamentals to sustain this market with the cruise trade and commercial growth.
  — Jane Wooldridge, miamiherald, 2 Feb. 2018
• Major league ballplayers go out and do early work to get the fundamentals down and get better.
  — Scott Springer, Cincinnati.com, 8 May 2018
• And one of the fundamentals – free-throw shooting – was in great supply.
  — Patrick Brennan, Cincinnati.com, 30 Jan. 2018
• In the week ahead, investors should be able to refocus on the fundamentals of business.
  — Tom Hudson, miamiherald, 13 Apr. 2018
• Some seemed to have no clue about the basic fundamentals of Facebook.
  — Abby Gardner, Glamour, 11 Apr. 2018
• Quinn: Play your fundamentals and trust your keys — that goes a long way.
  — Jeff McLane, Philly.com, 11 Jan. 2018
• These sounds, we’ve been told, are the fundamentals of talking dirty.
  — Lisa Ryan, The Cut, 30 Jan. 2018
• Short fields, turnovers and flubs in the fundamentals equal a soupy mix for a forgettable night for any high school football team.
  — Robert Avery, Houston Chronicle, 13 Sep. 2019
• In the eastern half of the country, fundamentals such as house price-to-rent ratios were less skewed.
  — Lance Lambert, Fortune, 5 Aug. 2023
• Ask any teacher: strong fundamentals are the building block to a good student.
  — Fernando Ramirez, Houston Chronicle, 4 Jan. 2018
• Over all, the trend lines for major bank fundamentals are still heading in the right direction.
  — Aaron Back, WSJ, 29 Mar. 2018
• But for now, the team is all about practicing and learning fundamentals.
  — Stephan Wiebe, Alaska Dispatch News, 23 July 2017

Last Updated: 27 Mar 2024