How to Use baseline in a Sentence

baseline

noun
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  • The experiment is meant only to provide a baseline for other studies.
  • In the United States, the baseline of risk is a 100-year event.
    — Justine Calma, The Verge, 29 Sep. 2023
  • Two areas where the game will be won and lost: the 3-point line and the baseline.
    — Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Nov. 2023
  • Besides the throw was high and way up the third baseline.
    — Paul Hoynes, cleveland, 3 Sep. 2023
  • That might be the new baseline for short-term rates soon.
    — Andy Kessler, WSJ, 31 July 2022
  • Stand behind the baseline on the right side to start your serve.
    — Machines Agency, The Salt Lake Tribune, 11 Oct. 2022
  • Last year’s scores were the baseline against which progress was gauged this year.
    — Mandy McLaren, BostonGlobe.com, 19 Sep. 2023
  • That means there isn’t a baseline of, say, 100 yards per game.
    — Chris Perkins, Sun Sentinel, 14 Sep. 2022
  • Williams won the coin toss, shook her long legs a little loose, and walked to the baseline to warm up.
    — Louisa Thomas, The New Yorker, 2 Sep. 2022
  • For the Johnsons and their dogs, mealtimes are the baseline.
    — Outside Online, 26 July 2022
  • It’s a baseline cross screen for Nathan Mensah, who got the ball in the low block against Forsling and missed.
    — Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 31 Jan. 2022
  • All of this leads to poor-quality sleep and the need for more than the baseline for your age.
    — Jeffrey Kluger, TIME, 8 Oct. 2024
  • And that, my friends, should give you at least a baseline for what The Deep gets up to this season.
    — Nick Romano, EW.com, 2 June 2022
  • While Duncomb was on a knee on the baseline, IU sped the other way.
    — Tyler Tachman, The Indianapolis Star, 21 Dec. 2022
  • As for her playing style, Ahn pounds away from the baseline.
    — Don Norcross, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Aug. 2022
  • The Celtics were in Oakland and the great Nate Thurmond was driving on the left baseline.
    — Bob Ryan, BostonGlobe.com, 21 Oct. 2022
  • The baseline for the cuts was medical providers' 2019 rates.
    — Jc Reindl, Detroit Free Press, 23 Feb. 2022
  • Then came a baseline cut by Matt Knowling and a find by Thomas.
    — Luca Evans, Orange County Register, 17 Dec. 2024
  • On the first attempt, Williams' pass from the far baseline went through Ivey's hands just past half court.
    — Larry Lage, ajc, 26 Feb. 2022
  • In the ninth game of the second set, Djokovic took a hard fall behind the baseline and was shaken up.
    — Adam Zagoria, Forbes, 16 July 2023
  • But even rises and falls just bring most workers back to the baseline—which isn’t a bad place to be.
    — Jane Thier, Fortune, 22 Dec. 2023
  • What happens when that warmth becomes the new baseline for a wider swath of ocean?
    — Dennis Romero, NBC News, 29 Nov. 2023
  • Duren, meanwhile, cut toward the rim from the right baseline.
    — Shawn Windsor, Detroit Free Press, 8 July 2022
  • However, the baseline of opinions of the Founders has changed since that time.
    — Craig Bruce Smith, Time, 21 Oct. 2022
  • But as far as being too edgy, or too far out there… the funny is the baseline.
    — Evan Romano, Men's Health, 24 Jan. 2022
  • That point total seems like a fair baseline for Killers of the Flower Moon, awards-wise.
    — Vulture, 25 Oct. 2023
  • So this is kind of the baseline work that everything would, would launch from.
    — Staff Reports, cleveland, 14 Oct. 2022
  • Poole used both hands to push Green away, then Green punched Poole in the face and sent the fourth-year guard into the wall behind the baseline.
    — Janie McCauley, BostonGlobe.com, 12 Oct. 2022
  • Che decided to loft a pass from the baseline to the opposite side of the rim, where Tillis leaped in the air and shoved the ball toward the basket just before time expired.
    — Dan Arritt, Orange County Register, 13 Feb. 2025
  • Paolo Banchero crossed the ball over from his right hand to his left and dribbled forward in attempt to get past Jazz big man Lauri Markkanen down the baseline toward the rim.
    — Jason Beede, Orlando Sentinel, 2 Feb. 2025

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