How to Use baseline in a Sentence

baseline

noun
  • The experiment is meant only to provide a baseline for other studies.
  • Yet even that was just the baseline sound.
    Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 4 June 2026
  • That is the baseline, not a bonus.
    Teresa Liu, Daily News, 4 May 2026
  • Didn’t know what the baseline was.
    Théoden Janes, Charlotte Observer, 12 Jan. 2026
  • But here’s what the baseline leaves out.
    Allison Palmer, Kansas City Star, 8 Apr. 2026
  • Last year’s scores were the baseline against which progress was gauged this year.
    Mandy McLaren, BostonGlobe.com, 19 Sep. 2023
  • The tests are meant to be a baseline, so there are no pass/fail grades.
    From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 22 Sep. 2021
  • Stand behind the baseline on the right side to start your serve.
    Machines Agency, The Salt Lake Tribune, 11 Oct. 2022
  • This gives you and your doctor a baseline for the year ahead.
    Conviva Senior Primary Care, Miami Herald, 20 Oct. 2025
  • The game was sold out with fans 3-4 deep on the baselines.
    Langston Wertz Jr, Charlotte Observer, 30 Jan. 2026
  • Parents stood two-deep along the baseline.
    Lily Cincola, AJC.com, 26 Feb. 2026
  • The next trip down the floor, the freshman drove the baseline and hit a floater.
    Don Norcross, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Feb. 2026
  • Which means that money has to be spent now just to bring it back to its baseline.
    Matt McFarland, CNN, 15 Aug. 2021
  • But the pass was too long, went out of bounds beyond the baseline and that was that.
    Steve Fryer, Oc Register, 14 Mar. 2026
  • That means there isn’t a baseline of, say, 100 yards per game.
    Chris Perkins, Sun Sentinel, 14 Sep. 2022
  • Daly frames the upgrade less as a burden than as a baseline.
    Christopher Elliott, Forbes.com, 13 June 2026
  • Barty crouched at the baseline and covered her face with her arm.
    BostonGlobe.com, 10 July 2021
  • That gives you a baseline of what anyone can see about you today.
    Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 16 May 2026
  • Dončić took the weight off his left leg before lying down on the baseline.
    Dan Woike, New York Times, 3 Apr. 2026
  • Instead, the baseline is the auction price less the tax debt.
    Kelly Phillips Erb, Forbes.com, 27 June 2026
  • That’s what lands in the hands of our panelists, who use it as a baseline for their own lists.
    The Athletic Nhl, New York Times, 11 Sep. 2025
  • More cameras have been set up around the baselines and backboards.
    Jacob Feldman, Sportico.com, 17 Jan. 2025
  • Shelton reared back and cranked a forehand down the line that hit the baseline.
    Matthew Futterman, New York Times, 9 July 2025
  • What happens when that warmth becomes the new baseline for a wider swath of ocean?
    Dennis Romero, NBC News, 29 Nov. 2023
  • Getting back to your baseline takes time and real work once you’re cleared.
    Bobby Narang, Chicago Tribune, 9 Jan. 2026
  • So this is kind of the baseline work that everything would, would launch from.
    Staff Reports, cleveland, 14 Oct. 2022
  • But as far as being too edgy, or too far out there… the funny is the baseline.
    Evan Romano, Men's Health, 24 Jan. 2022
  • For many sci-fi fans, these suits set the aesthetic baseline.
    Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 8 Oct. 2025
  • Trust can be rebuilt, if from a lower baseline.
    Ian Bremmer, Time, 25 June 2026
  • Blockx won 58 percent of the baseline points.
    Matthew Futterman, New York Times, 1 May 2026

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