RUDIMENT in a Sentence

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Example sentences for RUDIMENT, such as:

1. This gave me an idea, or the rudiment of one.
2. It only took me an hour to learn/pick up the rudiments of skiing.
3. But I, who had more experience, could plainly observe some rudiments of it among the wild Yahoos.

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 Meanings and Examples of RUDIMENT
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rudiment
 n.  the remains of a body part that was functional at an earlier stage of life
 n.  the elementary stages of any subject (usually plural)
Classic Sentence:
1  This gave me an idea, or the rudiment of one.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
2  But I, who had more experience, could plainly observe some rudiments of it among the wild Yahoos.
Gulliver's Travels 2 By Jonathan Swift
Context  Highlight   In PART 4: CHAPTER XII.
3  He advised my attending certain places in London, for the acquisition of such mere rudiments as I wanted, and my investing him with the functions of explainer and director of all my studies.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XXIV
4  If you attentively regard almost any quadruped's spine, you will be struck with the resemblance of its vertebrae to a strung necklace of dwarfed skulls, all bearing rudimental resemblance to the skull proper.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 80. The Nut.
5  Also forget not the strange fact that of all things of ill-savor, Cologne-water, in its rudimental manufacturing stages, is the worst.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 92. Ambergris.
Example Sentence:
1  It only took me an hour to learn/pick up the rudiments of skiing.