BASIC in a Sentence

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For BASIC, below is one of 128 sentences:
As always when she heard the truth spoken, no matter how unpalatable it was, basic honesty forced her to acknowledge it as truth.

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 Meanings and Examples of BASIC
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basic
 a.  reduced to the simplest and most significant form possible without loss of generality
 a.  serving as a base or starting point
Classic Sentence:
1  As always when she heard the truth spoken, no matter how unpalatable it was, basic honesty forced her to acknowledge it as truth.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIX
2  Everywhere Carol heard that the war was going to bring a basic change in psychology, to purify and uplift everything from marital relations to national politics, and she tried to exult in it.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
3  There was a basic harmony between Antonia and her mistress.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: VI
4  The instant her voice broke off, ceasing to compel my attention, my belief, I felt the basic insincerity of what she had said.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 1
5  So strictly speaking, there is no such thing as a counsel acknowledged by the court, and anyone who comes before this court as counsel is basically no more than a barrack room lawyer.
The Trial By Franz Kafka
Context  Highlight   In Chapter Seven Lawyer - Manufacturer - Painter
6  Not a bad point of view, basically, but nothing could be more mistaken than to think from that that lawyers are not necessary for the accused in this court.
The Trial By Franz Kafka
Context  Highlight   In Chapter Seven Lawyer - Manufacturer - Painter
7  And, in the right circumstances, that's basically true, but it's also true that I dislike your anxiety and fear and see that you don't have the trust in me you should have.
The Trial By Franz Kafka
Context  Highlight   In Chapter Eight Block, the businessman - Dismissing the law...
8  It was not that she was basically unkind.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXV
Example Sentence: (120 in 9 pages)
16  You'll be quite safe if you observe certain basic precautions.
17  The basic unit of society is the family.
18  There's a basic contradiction in the whole idea of paying for justice.
19  Contact with other people is a basic human need.
20  The basic forms of jacket, vest, and breeches developed slowly.
21  All applicants for the job should have a basic grounding in computer skills.
22  They've copied the basic design from the Japanese model and added a few of their own refinements.
23  An educational system which fails to teach basic arithmetic is seriously deficient.
24  Education is one of the basic human rights written into the United Nations Charter.
25  I had only a basic familiarity with computers.
26  The children progressed in the acquisition of basic skills.
27  The basic theme of these stories never.
28  We need to challenge some of the basic assumptions of western philosophy.
29  People judged to be functionally illiterate lack the basic reading and writing skills required in everyday life.
30  The basic lack of government funding is at the core of the problem.