BASE in a Sentence

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337 example sentences for BASE, such as:

1. The lamp has a heavy base.
2. The lamp stands on a circular base.
3. On this syringe I base all my hopes.
4. The statue has a solid concrete base.
5. The table is simply a chipboard circle on a base.

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 Meanings and Examples of BASE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
base
 n.  the lowest part or edge of something
 v.  use as a point from which something can develop
Classic Sentence: (127 in 9 pages)
1  Worn with pain, and weak from the prolonged hardships which I had undergone, I was removed, with a great train of wounded sufferers, to the base hospital at Peshawar.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER I. MR. SHERLOCK HOLMES
2  On reaching the base of the bluff they halted, and held a short council among themselves.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER I. ON THE GREAT ALKALI PLAIN
3  At night-time they chose the base of a beetling crag, where the rocks offered some protection from the chill wind, and there huddled together for warmth, they enjoyed a few hours' sleep.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER V. THE AVENGING ANGELS
4  The two with the hammer and the crowbar were drilling a hole near the base of the windmill.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter VIII
5  In the extreme sharpness of his look out for base coin, Mr. Kidderminster, as at present situated, never saw anything but money; so Sissy passed him unrecognised, and they went in.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VI
6  Think not I speak to thee only to excite thy terror, and practise on the base cowardice thou hast derived from thy tribe.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXII
7  Courtesy of tongue," said Rowena, "when it is used to veil churlishness of deed, is but a knight's girdle around the breast of a base clown.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
8  As Eustacia uttered the latter words she retired from the base of the barrow, and Wildeve followed her, so that the reddleman could hear no more.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: 9 Love Leads a Shrewd Man into Strategy
9  Rainbarrow had again become blended with night when Wildeve ascended the long acclivity at its base.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: 7 A Coalition between Beauty and Oddness
10  He heard a rustling on his left hand, a cloaked figure with an upturned face appeared at the base of the Barrow, and Clym descended.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: 4 An Hour of Bliss and Many Hours of Sadness
11  It was only by trying begging as an amateur that I could get the facts upon which to base my articles.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In VI. THE MAN WITH THE TWISTED LIP
12  You will find that the clips are too wide for your nose, showing that the lady's nose was very broad at the base.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In X. THE ADVENTURE OF THE GOLDEN PINCE-NEZ
13  It was a very large chamber, lined with innumerable volumes, which had overflowed from the shelves and lay in piles in the corners, or were stacked all round at the base of the cases.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In X. THE ADVENTURE OF THE GOLDEN PINCE-NEZ
14  On this syringe I base all my hopes.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In XI. THE ADVENTURE OF THE MISSING THREE-QUARTER
15  With that refuge as a base, I could face this strange world with some of that confidence I had lost in realizing to what creatures night by night I lay exposed.
The Time Machine By H. G. Wells
Context  Highlight   In VII
Example Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
16  The lamp has a heavy base.
17  The statue has a solid concrete base.
18  The drug is injected directly into the base of the spine.
19  The lamp stands on a circular base.
20  Army personnel are not allowed to leave the base.
21  The table is simply a chipboard circle on a base.
22  This vase would be perfect but for a few small flaws in its base.
23  The farm was in / under constant requisition as a base for the rescue team.
24  Women soldiers will join their male counterparts at the army base.
25  The day dawned sunless and with a low cloud base.
26  Milan was Mr Craxi's home town and his power base.
27  The company has decided to use Belfast as its distribution base.
28  Often there's no clear evidence one way or the other and you just have to base your judgement on intuition.
29  His fan base is mostly middle-aged ladies.
30  New recruits undergo six weeks' basic training at this naval base.