How to Use basal in a Sentence

basal

adjective

• This opens up room at the bud union for new fresh canes known as basal breaks.
  — Rita Perwich, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Jan. 2024
• Prune these back almost to the ground as basal growth appears.
  — Pamm Cooper, Hartford Courant, 10 May 2025
• Talk to a healthcare provider about your basal insulin needs.
  — Lynne Peeples, Health, 26 May 2024
• My father had basal skin cancer and my brother had it.
  — Jason Pham, StyleCaster, 15 Mar. 2026
• The plants grow in tight, multistemmed clumps with mostly basal leaves.
  — The Editors, Good Housekeeping, 29 May 2018
• The most common types of skin cancers are basal and squamous cell cancers.
  — Joedy McCreary, USA TODAY, 3 Aug. 2023
• It’s called a basal plate, which is horticulture-speak for the spot on a plant where roots and stems meet.
  — Leanne Potts, Better Homes & Gardens, 27 July 2024
• The resulting fresh basal foliage should be left through winter.
  — Marie Iannotti, The Spruce, 9 May 2026
• Fill the dish with enough water to just submerge the celery’s root end (basal plate), not the entire piece.
  — Leanne Potts, Better Homes & Gardens, 27 July 2024
• Yarrow may develop new basal leaves in fall and initiates growth in early spring.
  — Kim Toscano, Southern Living, 3 Oct. 2024
• Their prime target is our roses’ tender new foliage, buds and blooms and the fresh new basal breaks at the base of the plant.
  — Rita Perwich, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Sep. 2023
• Instead, open up space at the bud union for basal breaks by sawing out undesirable canes flush at the bud union.
  — Rita Perwich, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Jan. 2025
• Less fatal varieties—such as basal and squamous cell skin cancers—make up the bulk of those cases.
  — Grace Browne, WIRED, 12 July 2023
• None are toxic, but check for hollow single stems, milky sap and a basal rosette before any of it hits your cutting board.
  — Ryan Brennan, Miami Herald, 30 Apr. 2026
• Cut your stems at a 45-degree angle to expose as much basal area as possible.
  — Paul Cappiello, The Courier-Journal, 9 Feb. 2024
• Propagate bee balm in spring when the basal shoots are 4 to 6 inches tall, and the plant hasn’t started to bloom.
  — Madeline Buiano, Martha Stewart, 17 July 2026
• None of those are toxic, but the right plant has hollow, single, unbranched stems with milky sap and smooth leaves growing in a basal rosette.
  — Ryan Brennan, Sacbee.com, 30 Apr. 2026
• Women tend to have a slightly higher basal temperature than men.
  — Richard Klasco, M.d., New York Times, 9 Feb. 2018
• This is known as basal insulin and is needed for baseline regulation of blood sugar.
  — Ivan Paul, Ars Technica, 27 Dec. 2023
• Dystonia is thought to begin in the part of the brain called the basal ganglia that controls how muscles contract.
  — Sandee Lamotte, CNN, 29 Jan. 2025
• The tool tracks heart rate, blood-oxygen levels, stress levels, basal temperature, and more.
  — Jenny Berg, Vogue, 4 Oct. 2024
• And for the philosophically minded, basal cognition casts the world in a sparkling new light.
  — Rowan Jacobsen, Scientific American, 1 Feb. 2024
• The plant spends its first year in a vegetative state as a low-growing basal rosette, which produces a robust root system.
  — Emily Deletter, The Enquirer, 11 Apr. 2023
• When propagating, look for basal shoots emerging from the tuber crown that are about 2 to 4 inches long.
  — Madeline Buiano, Martha Stewart, 17 July 2026
• What surprised the researchers was that whenever a bird practiced, dopamine levels in the basal ganglia increased.
  — Jenny Lehmann, Discover Magazine, 27 Mar. 2025
• To prune your apple tree in summer, remove new, vigorous upright shoots, cutting them back to three leaves above the basal cluster.
  — Sj McShane, Martha Stewart, 26 June 2026
• Amazingly, many of the 100-year-old-plus trees had significant basal scars but were still thriving.
  — Carl R. Gold, Baltimore Sun, 13 Jan. 2025
• Strokes of the basal ganglia can cause highly focal damage which results in dysfunction of the dopamine circuitry.
  — Literary Hub, 13 May 2026
• These revelations have put the biologist at the vanguard of a new field called basal cognition.
  — Rowan Jacobsen, Scientific American, 1 Feb. 2024
• Plants produce a basal rosette of downy foliage in their first year and flower in the second season, after which the plants typically die out.
  — Kim Toscano, Southern Living, 12 May 2026