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
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  • 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
  • Jack knew enough about percussion to realise that the girl was methodically going through a set of rudiments.
  • They might just about have grasped the rudiments of e-mail, but they haven't a clue about the new media.
  • It wasn't so long ago that I was riding out alongside the youngster on the gallops at Ayr racecourse, his father having sent the boy to her yard in his school holidays to learn the rudiments of riding racehorses.
  • There were some part-time hadarim for girls taught by women, but in general, women’s education beyond the rudiments of reading and piety was quite exceptional. Jewish Education in the United States.
  • With the rudiments of a structure in place, Kallman and other executives began to draw a distinction in artist negotiations between what they termed passive and active investments. Fortune’s Fool
  • It is hard to say what, beyond the rudiments of painting, Dou derived from his time with Rembrandt.
  • A team of 17 individuals assists the band with marching rudiments, choreography and in developing tight musical and visual components.
  • There is no one better to teach the rudiments of the game than Matt.
  • A primrose by the river's brim," whether "a yellow primrose 'tis to him," or a dicotyledon, may be outwardly described more and less well; but we require for that purpose only the rudiments of literary prose. Platform Monologues
  • The inorganic sediments were covered with poorly decomposed fibric peat accumulations that contained well-preserved rudiments of earlier communities.
  • Using the indigenously available material, they have put together the rudiments of a ‘glider aircraft’, similar in function and style to the imported gliders used only by defence pilots in India.
  • It neglects the fact that although the rudiments of a task can be picked up quite soon, skills take time to develop, and the process is inhibited by too many job changes, compulsory task rotations, or rapid staff turnover.
  • The epithelium of the oesophagus is the same here as in the more anterior regions described above; that of the lung rudiments is very variable in thickness, even in different parts of the same section, being in some places composed of a single layer of cuboidal or even flattened cells, in other places consisting of four or five layers of cells (not well shown in the figure). Development of the Digestive Canal of the American Alligator
  • Beginning with 2005's "About the Monks," the first of his four albums to date, Mr. Prieto established himself as a forceful voice whose fluency in both jazz's swinging pulse and the rudiments of Afro-Cuban rhythms is merely the beginning of the story. A Propulsive Force for Jazz
  • You would have to do a spell, of course, as a junior reporter, but you can pick up the rudiments fairly quickly, I'm sure. TANK OF SERPENTS
  • He had spent six months in the army in codes and ciphers and knew more than the rudiments of cryptography. FLOATING CITY
  • In the male coccid we find a late larval stage with hidden wing-rudiments, the importance of which, for comparison with the caterpillar, will be appreciated later. The Life-Story of Insects
  • It has rudiments of the limb girdles, but no fins.
  • In every school of the higher branches of education that train young women in their late teens there should be a chair of mothercraft, providing practical lectures on baby hygiene, dress, bathing, and the general care of infants, and giving instruction in the rudiments of simple bottle-feeding, together with the caloric values of milk, gruels, and other ingredients which enter into the preparation of a baby's food. The Mother and Her Child
  • My intention was only to furnish a kind of rudiments, by which those who feel some interest in religion might be trained to true godliness. Manybooks.net
  • When the Laune Pipers' Band was founded in 1944 in Killorglin, it was decided to engage Peter to train the local boys in the rudiments of pipe playing.
  • These were the casual sallies of his pride; but the avarice of the chagan was a more steady and tractable passion: a rich and regular supply of silk apparel, furniture, and plate, introduced the rudiments of art and luxury among the tents of the Scythians; their appetite was stimulated by the pepper and cinnamon of India; the annual subsidy or tribute was raised from fourscore to one hundred and twenty thousand pieces of gold; and after each hostile interruption, the payment of the arrears, with exorbitant interest, was always made the first condition of the new treaty. History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 4
  • Hobbes, Thomas, 1588-1679Philosophicall rudiments concerning government and society. Electronic Text Center at the University of Virginia Library
  • I was learning the rudiments - the drum rolls, the double bounces, the single bounces.
  • He flows like a slap bassist, performing exhausting rudiments in too-tight spaces with little grace and even less rhythm.
  • Mike seemed to have dispensed with the normal rudiments of style, with capital letters for example. MR GOLIGHTLY'S HOLIDAY
  • Teaching pupils the rudiments of double-blind tests, clinical trial methods and general principles of factoring studies for other influences would clear these scientific confusions.
  • He taught Lilly the rudiments of astrology, but Lilly had a low opinion of his tutor.
  • Based on careful observations, Darwin contended that many animals possess general concepts, some reasoning ability, rudiments of moral sentiments, and complex emotions.
  • And he was now teaching young Patsy, unbeknownst to his elder brothers, the rudiments of the noble art of self-defence.
  • Everyone learns the rudiments of arithmetic in elementary school.
  • She helped to build a house, learning the rudiments of brick-laying as she went along.
  • One of the directors had someone teach Jayaraja the rudiments of camera work.
  • It was about studies and lessons, dealing with the rudiments of knowledge, and the schoolboyish tone of it conflicted with the big things that were stirring in him - with the grip upon life that was even then crooking his fingers like eagle's talons, with the cosmic thrills that made him ache, and with the inchoate consciousness of mastery of it all. Chapter 13
  • I have also met parents who are willing to shove Ritalin down the throats of their young child, simply because their offspring have never been taught the rudiments of socialisation.
  • Meanwhile, citizens with little prior exposure to the rudiments of democratic practices acquired repeated experience with voting.
  • In every village, in every nook and cranny, youths were taught the rudiments of the game by elders as a matter of course.
  • The leg and wing rudiments of the male coccid (pp. 20-1) beneath the cuticle of the second instar are strictly comparable to imaginal buds, and these are present in one instar of what is generally regarded as an exopterygote life-history. The Life-Story of Insects
  • Just because it is set on flat, not upright: and learned men will tell you that those two flukes are the "rudiments" -- that is, either the beginning, or more likely the last remains -- of two hind feet. Madam How and Lady Why
  • ‘Working with them helped me to know the rudiments of film-making,’ he says.
  • They are illustrations of a general physiological law that in some cases might be called a caprice of nature, in virtue of which the rudiments of a process that is to be effected at a future epoch are sketched out during an epoch already existing. The Education of American Girls
  • The rudiments of a police force now exist, supposedly being trained by Germans.
  • Teaching pupils the rudiments of double-blind tests, clinical trial methods and general principles of factoring studies for other influences would clear these scientific confusions.
  • Lying a short distance dorsad to the pharynx are seen two small, thick-walled openings, _ty_; these are the rudiments of the thymus glands. Development of the Digestive Canal of the American Alligator
  • a number of these "wiremen" were engaged and instructed patiently in the rudiments of the new art by means of a blackboard and oral lessons. Edison, His Life and Inventions
  • It only took me an hour to learn/pick up the rudiments of skiing.
  • Familiarity with the rudiments of music notation and a certain degree of aural skills are important to the success of first-year music theory students, he says.
  • It was about studies and lessons, dealing with the rudiments of knowledge, and the schoolboyish tone of it conflicted with the big things that were stirring in him - with the grip upon life that was even then crooking his fingers like eagle's talons, with the cosmic thrills that made him ache, and with the inchoate consciousness of mastery of it all. Chapter 13
  • There is a regrettable paucity of training in the rudiments of security protocols or practices at the library.
  • I left with a fair understanding of the rudiments of dressmaking.
  • It was about studies and lessons, dealing with the rudiments of knowledge, and the schoolboyish tone of it conflicted with the big things that were stirring in him - with the grip upon life that was even then crooking his fingers like eagle's talons, with the cosmic thrills that made him ache, and with the inchoate consciousness of mastery of it all. Chapter 13
  • To be sure, it is easy to add to any new discovery — inventis aliquid addere facile est; and, therefore, the student, after well mastering the rudiments of his subject, will have to make himself acquainted with the more recent additions to the knowledge of it. The Art of Literature
  • The nations that dwelt in ancient times around and near the northern shores of the Mediterranean Sea were the first in our continent to receive from the East the rudiments of art and literature, and the germs of social and political organizations. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 01
  • Using just the rudiments of clothing, namely a scrap of fabric and a bit of thread, Berriolo conjured not the costume that covers the figure, but the figure itself, with playfulness and whimsy, but also with a sense of quest and discovery.
  • But, because the first _tasks of learners ought to be little and single_, we have filled this first book of training one up to see a thing of himself, with nothing but rudiments, that is, with the chief of things and words, or with the grounds of the whole world, and the whole language, and of all our understanding about things. The Orbis Pictus
  • Chalcedon so long as they earnestly endeavoured to teach the heathen the rudiments of the faith and to love the Lord in incorruptness. The Church and the Barbarians Being an Outline of the History of the Church from A.D. 461 to A.D. 1003
  • The anterior part of the fore-brain, including the rudiments of the cerebral hemispheres, is named the telencephalon, and its posterior portion is termed the diencephalon; both of these contribute to the formation of the third ventricle. IX. Neurology. 2. Development of the Nervous System
  • The history and geography of the world were familiar to his memory: the lives of the heroes of the East, perhaps of the West, 6 excited his emulation: his skill in astrology is excused by the folly of the times, and supposes some rudiments of mathematical science; and a profane taste for the arts is betrayed in his liberal invitation and reward of the painters of The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
  • Ichthyostega had seven digits in the feet and still retained some gill arch rudiments and fin rays in the tail.
  • We take up clausal logic here and assume that the reader is familiar with the rudiments of first-order logic; for the typed λ-calculus the reader may want to check Church 1940. Automated Reasoning
  • [24] These were the casual sallies of his pride; but the avarice of the chagan was a more steady and tractable passion: a rich and regular supply of silk apparel, furniture, and plate, introduced the rudiments of art and luxury among the tents of the History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 4
  • Howard Marshall II, Anna Nicole's octogenarian billionaire husband, sung by Alan Oke with an appropriate wiry toughness; the four buxom lap dancers who, when Anna Nicole starts working in a sex club, instruct her in the rudiments of their art; or Doctor Yes, the plastic surgeon who created Smith's rack windily sung by Andrew Rees. Royal Opera's 'Anna Nicole' misses the inner beauty
  • She helped to build a house, learning the rudiments of brick-laying as she went along.
  • Businessmen he lectures to do not even know the rudiments of doctrine.
  • Better sermons became a major source of religious instruction, the liturgy was regularized, and there was a new emphasis on catechesis, the effort to help the young in particular learn the rudiments of their faith.
  • Those early-arriving rudiments came from the usual sources—my parents and a few of my kin, the natural world around me which was frequently rural or wooded suburban, and from God and his various messengers, by which I do not mean winged visitors companioned with uncanny lights and soothing music. Letter to a Godchild
  • After the Mass and the reception which followed, Canon Lebocq gave an introduction to Gregorian Chant for beginners, underlining its historical origins as well as the rudiments of solfeggio. Report on ICK chant workshop
  • Any one who knows the rudiments of cookery, will recognize that with this system no viand can have any particular flavor, the partridges having a taste of their neighbor the roast beef, which in turn suggests the plum pudding it has been "chumming" with. Worldly Ways and Byways
  • The curricula extend from the rudiments of education clear through the advanced high school course entitling the aspirant to entrance into college or business life. Camp Bragg and Fayetteville. Sketches of Camp and City
  • He had spent six months in the army in codes and ciphers and knew more than the rudiments of cryptography. FLOATING CITY
  • The workshop will expose students to the rudiments of handling backstage activities such as sound and lighting effects.
  • In the past road safety initiatives focused on children's lack of experience and competence in dealing with traffic, and aspired to teach children the rudiments of dealing with a busy road.
  • The epithelium of the oesophagus is the same here as in the more anterior regions described above; that of the lung rudiments is very variable in thickness, even in different parts of the same section, being in some places composed of a single layer of cuboidal or even flattened cells, in other places consisting of four or five layers of cells (not well shown in the figure). Development of the Digestive Canal of the American Alligator
  • He had spent six months in the army in codes and ciphers and knew more than the rudiments of cryptography. FLOATING CITY
  • Jean Mabillon, then parish priest at Neufville, by whom he was well instructed in the "rudiments", and from whom he received a donation to enable him to continue his studies. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy
  • If you don't understand the rudiments of grammar you won't be able to deal with Shakespeare.
  • Perhaps, beyond some kind of rudiments, they never would. The Boat of a Million Years
  • It doesn't understand sorcery, it doesn't understand spellsinging, it does not comprehend even the rudiments of thaumaturgy, and therefore cannot be affected by mem. The Lives of Felix Gunderson
  • It only took me an hour to learn/pick up the rudiments of skiing.
  • I had been gadding around the country learning how to be totally inconspicuous and acquiring the rudiments of "tradecraft", as John le Carré would have called it. Top stories from Times Online
  • Knowledge of the rudiments of perspective gives one a better conception of the proper manner to foreshorten an object, animate or otherwise, than any amount of special instruction on the subject.
  • In the biographers' accounts, the cardinal is cast as something of a second father figure, teaching the young Bernini the rudiments of literature even as his actual father taught him how to hold a drill.
  • Instruction in piano, voice, organ, string, brass, wind and percussion are available for beginners and masters, as well as classes in rudiments, composition and other theoretical subjects.
  • Drivers of such vehicles too have to be taught the rudiments of traffic discipline.
  • From these are to be carefully distinguished such rudiments as arise later during ossification, mostly as _ossa intercalaria_, in order to give greater strength to the skull in view of the greater development of the brain, etc.; the latter give their individual character to the _smaller_ vertebrate groups, and comprise such bones as the _vomer_, the _Wormian bones_, the lowermost turbinal, etc. "(p. 63, 1838). Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology
  • The most available men for the purpose were, of course, those who had been accustomed to wiring for the simpler electrical systems then in vogue -- telephones, district-messenger calls, burglar alarms, house annunciators, etc., and a number of these ` ` wiremen '' were engaged and instructed patiently in the rudiments of the new art by means of a blackboard and oral lessons. Edison, His Life and Inventions, vol. 1
  • They are thus taught the rudiments of yoga, relaxation techniques and certain yoga exercises that can help improve memory and concentration.
  • They were also taught the rudiments of direction.
  • Mathematics should be taught only in its rudiments, and those with special talents or tastes for it should go to agamic schools. Youth: Its Education, Regimen, and Hygiene
  • It only took me an hour to learn/pick up the rudiments of skiing.
  • They will be taught the rudiments of life saving so that in the event of an emergency they can help sustain life until paramedics arrive.
  • Professor Morren considers the adventitious petalodes as rudiments of so many supplementary flowers, axillary to the calyx, and adnate to the corolla; each lobe then would, in this view, represent an imperfect flower, and the completed catacorolla would be formed of a series of confluent flowers of this description. Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants
  • Singers and storytellers, the entertainers of those times, included dance in their performances, and created the rudiments of modern theatre, where dialogue takes precedence.

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