fundamental

In a sentence

Six example sentences with fundamental, each labelled with its topic.

• Steady time is fundamental for a drummer; every other skill collapses if the pulse wanders even slightly under pressure.

  Music

• Descartes wanted one fundamental claim that could survive every doubt, and then to rebuild all other knowledge on top of it.

  Philosophy

• Hip hinge technique is fundamental: get it wrong and every deadlift, swing, and squat you ever attempt inherits the fault.

  Fitness

• Boxing out is fundamental, and the coach benches anyone who watches the shot instead of blocking a rebounder.

  Basketball

• Scarcity is the fundamental fact of economics: wants are endless, and every field, hour, and ton of steel is not.

  Economics

• Salt is fundamental to bread: leave it out and the dough rises too fast and bakes into something flat and bland.

  Cooking

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More Academic words

• scheduling
• indicator
• formulation
• constant
• accompanying
• defining
• transformed
• transmission
• concentrated
• filing
• abandonment
• index