How to Use basically in a Sentence

basically

adverb

• Jews were basically banned from the city in 1941, forced to live in a ghetto.
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 17 May 2023
• She was basically not allowed to have a lab with the men.
  — Ashraya Gupta, Scientific American, 7 Sep. 2023
• Your face and the concrete are basically close friends at that point.
  — Spin Staff, SPIN, 5 June 2023
• Or the feeds basically went out and they could be captured by clients.
  — Michael Calore, WIRED, 21 Dec. 2023
• So basically, applying SPF on the scalp with a focus to the part is not a step to be skipped.
  — Brigitt Earley, Glamour, 4 Apr. 2024
• And that was basically a stent going up into the brain to pull out a blood clot.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 24 Jan. 2024
• And, of course, Halestorm ranks as a highlight on basically any bill.
  — Jim Harrington, The Mercury News, 28 Feb. 2024
• These are basically times that display the same number on the clock.
  — Rachel Silva, ELLE Decor, 15 June 2023
• One of the hazards of long-term sweater wear is pilling — basically the age spots of fabric.
  — Madison Yauger, Peoplemag, 20 Sep. 2023
• But by the end of the day Wall Street's ultimate verdict seemed to be that things are basically fine.
  — Heard Editors, WSJ, 8 Jan. 2024
• Every piece of the plot hinges on basically three lies or lies of omission.
  — Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Aug. 2023
• These offer a table of contents, basically just a list of all the headers on the page.
  — Justin Pot, Popular Science, 20 July 2023
• Yet, everyone has been ready to put the band in the Rock Hall basically from the moment that record was released.
  — Jim Harrington, SPIN, 8 Nov. 2023
• And all my films are basically movies made on the road or travelling.
  — Nathan Taylor Pemberton, The New Yorker, 10 Dec. 2023
• More in the way of warmer-than-normal stuff is ahead through the weekend, even on Sunday, which is basically a washout.
  — Ian Livingston, Washington Post, 8 Dec. 2023
• Yep, there’s no doubt about it — Walton and Chewbacca are basically one and the same.
  — Chuck Schilken, Los Angeles Times, 2 Feb. 2024
• There are resistance heaters (basically, a toaster), and heat pumps, which pull heat out of the air — even cold air.
  — Ray Magliozzi, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 June 2023
• Bonne Étoile is basically a perfume for children, with notes of pear, wild rose, and white musk.
  — Tori Latham, Robb Report, 6 Nov. 2023
• From that moment on, the structure was basically a time bomb.
  — Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 19 Nov. 2023
• That is something in our philosophy: to be able to go towards the goal, not to own the goal day one, basically.
  — Laird Borrelli-Persson, Vogue, 28 Nov. 2023
• The longest pieces of hair stopped around the nape of her neck while some of the shortest pieces grazed her cheekbones, basically forming curtain bangs.
  — Gabi Thorne, Allure, 15 Aug. 2023
• Those are basically a coin flip — and the outcomes are off in the distance, as those cases wind their way through the legal system.
  — Gaby Del Valle, The Verge, 21 Mar. 2024
• All the sessions turned into me basically speaking to a wall.
  — Katie Bain, Billboard, 2 Oct. 2023
• There is a serial killer on the loose, but the tragedy of Hildur, who basically lost her family as a child, is crucial here.
  — John Hopewell, Variety, 13 Oct. 2023
• There's a lot of things that are said about this that are basically complete fantasy.
  — TIME, 13 Feb. 2024
• Take a dip in the home's pristine pool, which is basically begging for a cannonball.
  — Kelsey Mulvey, House Beautiful, 19 July 2023
• And that is basically in hiring the right people, upskilling and reskilling, and also the change management that comes with it.
  — Anna Oakes, Quartz, 16 June 2023
• This room is basically a massive bouncy house with cool patterns projected on the walls and the floor.
  — oregonlive, 16 June 2023
• Did your parents basically put a camera, Final Draft and Avid in your crib?
  — Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 Apr. 2024
• The soft palate could be redundant and low-hanging and basically blocking the airway.
  — Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 29 June 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024