Sentence examples for basically children and from inspiring English sources

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The pictures of them smartly greeting Russia's puffy little tyrant, and lounging across the floor of an anteroom making wacky hand gestures, didn't make me think, "Good on them!" Instead I was filled with loathing, which isn't very nice of me because they're basically children and they haven't really done any harm.

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So basically children deserve a mum and a dad, it's only right".

"I thought it was my civic duty to encourage, basically, children to go out and smash things".

Basically, children are caught in the cross-fire and are often used as shields and tools of war, and are viewed as sexual targets.

"It's an old saw that geniuses and artists are basically children," he declares, with paternal indulgence, before describing Mingus chasing fans out of a nightclub with a meat cleaver.

Much has been made of the fact that the Stan and Ollie characters were basically children in adult bodies, that they represented more innocent times, with simpler values.

But, basically, children try to hit one another with a large rubber ball.

Basically, children are out to maximise their pleasure, by personalising it, revisiting favourite moments".

It's interesting that you say Cillian and Gillian both feel older as the story progresses; I think that's true, but I also think there's a way in which the Bog Girl's presence also resizes them, reminds them that in the grander scheme, they are basically children on the planet.

Basically, children are being robbed of an education".

It voted unanimously to make them wear helmets when riding scooters, and the Council speaker, Peter F. Vallone, defended his proposed new smoking restrictions in restaurants by saying, "My concern here is basically for children and the health effects of smoking".

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