rudiments

How To Use rudiments In A Sentence

• He taught them the rudiments of carpentry and construction as they put up a unit for poultry production.
• In these free schools the teacher was, apparently, the priest of the town or village, and, as far as we can judge, the curriculum composed what may be called the rudiments of general education, with an elementary course in Christian Doctrine. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux
• But how little would what are commonly called the rudiments of education, add to their qualifications as laborers? Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject
• In my previous impostures in the English department, I had picked up some of the rudiments of Romanticism, but one idea that intrigued me was Edmund Burke's theory of the sublime.
• The average girl has little love of sozzling and mussing with the elements, and cooking involves problems in organic chemistry too complex to be understood very profoundly, but the rudiments of household chemistry should be taught. Youth: Its Education, Regimen, and Hygiene
• After leaving school at 15 he passed from one odd job to another before joining Larkins Studio at the age of 21, learning the rudiments, painting and tracing cels on productions made for the Film Producers Guild.
• he mastered only the rudiments of geometry
• In this school many have been taught the "rudiments," and so the average intelligence has increased. Our Brother in Black: His Freedom and His Future
• The transitory and singularly small and simple denticle in the horse exemplifies the rudiment of an ancestral structure in the same degree as do the hoofless splint-bones; just as the spurious hoofs dangling therefrom in hipparion are retained rudiments of the functionally developed lateral hoofs in the broader foot of palæotherium. The World's Greatest Books — Volume 15 — Science
• While learning the rudiments of epideictic presentation in a "parrot-like" manner, a student committed exemplary passages of poetry and literature to memory. Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro