How to Use baseline in a Sentence

baseline

noun
  • 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
  • Last year’s scores were the baseline against which progress was gauged this year.
    Mandy McLaren, BostonGlobe.com, 19 Sep. 2023
  • 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
  • That point total seems like a fair baseline for Killers of the Flower Moon, awards-wise.
    Vulture, 25 Oct. 2023
  • Now that there's an established baseline, here are three sure-fire ways to align the mission with the brand.
    Simone Grapini Goodman, Forbes, 30 Nov. 2023
  • The two are pulled apart, just long enough for the referee to run toward the baseline as a group of players give chase.
    Brian Haenchen, The Indianapolis Star, 26 July 2023
  • The clock ticking down, Butler dribbled to the baseline, found that cut off and circled back.
    John Marshall, ajc, 2 Apr. 2023
  • Our take: To set a baseline here, all of these coffee drinks are both rich and very sweet (think three creams, four sugars).
    Gary Dzen, BostonGlobe.com, 11 Sep. 2023
  • And, there’s enough evidence to point to that their baseline is fairly high.
    Andrew Gillis, cleveland, 17 Sep. 2023
  • This will take cars off the road to reduce baseline pollution.
    Bloomberg News, BostonGlobe.com, 8 June 2023
  • Each new season is a baseline from which things will get weirder still.
    Time, 19 July 2023
  • This would suggest that three [0.25%] cuts are likely if the economy evolves in line with the Fed’s baseline.
    Marley Jay, NBC News, 12 Dec. 2023
  • Scores were taken at baseline and between two and 12 weeks.
    Brian Mastroianni, Health, 15 Aug. 2023
  • Spectators lined up behind the baseline, two or three deep in some places.
    Dylan Hernández, Los Angeles Times, 30 Oct. 2023
  • After his fifth triple, Thompson skipped to the baseline and screamed to a raucous Chase Center crowd.
    Danny Emerman, The Mercury News, 25 Feb. 2024
  • So shoot for just a couple more grams from your baseline each day to keep your belly happy.
    Audrey Bruno, SELF, 21 Feb. 2024
  • Pound away relentlessly from the baseline or team with a partner and bang volleys at the net?
    Don Norcross, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Sep. 2023
  • But my baseline really has been to try to be healthy and to eat foods that will really calm the system down.
    Hannah Yasharoff, USA TODAY, 30 Mar. 2023
  • The ends are sliced blunt to create a healthy baseline that trims away any straggly ends and makes hair appear thicker.
    Elle Turner, Glamour, 14 Aug. 2023
  • Oakland took its biggest lead of the game in the third quarter after Lacy scored on a turnaround jumper from the left baseline, making the score 56-33.
    Nathan Canilao, The Mercury News, 6 Feb. 2024
  • The boys rode on a baseball field with a sod infield, white mums for the baseline and an outfield covered with red roses.
    Defne Karabatur, Los Angeles Times, 1 Jan. 2024
  • The post contains an image of Djokovic behind the baseline, preparing to serve.
    Lorenzo Reyes, USA TODAY, 4 Sep. 2023
  • The only problem, Holz and other analysts said, is that the baseline thesis doesn’t make a lot of sense.
    Damian Garde, STAT, 18 Oct. 2023
  • Having lured Alcaraz forward, Djokovic sent the ball toward the baseline.
    Howard Fendrich, BostonGlobe.com, 9 June 2023
  • With the score tied and less than seven seconds left, James drove baseline, skied and, at the last second, fired the ball to the corner where Schroder stood in front of the Minnesota bench.
    Dan Woike, Los Angeles Times, 12 Apr. 2023

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