FUNDAMENTAL in a Sentence

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Salus populi suprema lex, is certainly so just and fundamental a rule, that he, who sincerely follows it, cannot dangerously err.

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 Meanings and Examples of FUNDAMENTAL
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
fundamental
 a.  relating to foundation or base; elementary; primary; essential
Classic Sentence:
1  For every religion has its root in certain fundamental ordinances peculiar to itself.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XII.
2  to the will of God, of which that is a declaration, and the fundamental law of nature being the preservation of mankind, no human sanction can be good, or valid against it.
Second Treatise of Government By John Locke
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI
3  Salus populi suprema lex, is certainly so just and fundamental a rule, that he, who sincerely follows it, cannot dangerously err.
Second Treatise of Government By John Locke
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIII
4  Besides, the general political agitation drew the attention of our people away from the more fundamental matters of perfecting themselves in the industries at their doors and in securing property.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
Context  Highlight   In Chapter V.
5  Miss Stowbody expressed the fundamental principle of the American drama: the only way to be artistic is to present Shakespeare.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
6  However inadequate the rest of the house, he had seen to it that the fundamental cellar should be large and clean, the square pillars whitewashed, and the bins for coal and potatoes and trunks convenient.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIV
7  This fundamental thing settled, the next point is, in what internal respect does the whale differ from other fish.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 32. Cetology.
8  I am still a little afraid of missing something if I forget that, as my father snobbishly suggested, and I snobbishly repeat a sense of the fundamental decencies is parcelled out unequally at birth.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 1
9  When he reached the point about the fundamental and radical law, his opponent jumped up and began to protest.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 3: Chapter 23
10  By a fundamental law of this realm, neither the king, nor either of his two eldest sons, are permitted to leave the island; nor the queen, till she is past child-bearing.
Gulliver's Travels 2 By Jonathan Swift
Context  Highlight   In PART 3: CHAPTER III.
11  It was a fundamental principle of the Gradgrind philosophy that everything was to be paid for.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VIII
12  So you give it up with a wave of the hand because you have not found a fundamental cause.
Notes from the Underground By Feodor Dostoevsky
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: V
13  It will be remembered that the fundamental point in Javert, his element, the very air he breathed, was veneration for all authority.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER V—A SUITABLE TOMB
14  At the bottom of her soul, fundamentally, she had needed this phallic hunting out, she had secretly wanted it, and she had believed that she would never get it.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 16
15  Alike in appearance, fundamentally different in reality; the Swiss defend the false, Bonaparte defends the true.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER II—THE ROOT OF THE MATTER
Example Sentence: (30 in 3 pages)
1  The argument is full of fundamental flaws.
2  To learn obeying is the fundamental art of governing.
3  We need to make fundamental changes to the way in which we treat our environment.
4  Trial by jury is a fundamental right.
5  There is a fundamental difference between the two points of view.
6  The fundamental defect of fathers is that they want their children to be a credit to them.
7  A citizen must not be relieved from fulfilling the fundamental duties of citizens.
8  You can't compare them — there is a fundamental difference in kind.
9  We consider these freedoms fundamental to democracy.
10  An open system of criminal justice is a fundamental requirement of any democratic society.
11  The school is based on the fundamental principle that each child should develop its full potential.
12  That is the fundamental difference between the two societies.
13  A free press is fundamental to democracy.
14  Fresh air is fundamental to good health.
15  Legal aid is a fundamental part of our system of justice.