Sentence examples for basically old from inspiring English sources

I went to the cinema to see Emmanuelle with seven blokes, who were basically old stoned hippies.

I mean, when the CRS report first came out I didn't write about it because it was basically old news (which is not to criticize the report, which did a fine job of putting the evidence together).

"Now we're in a position where we probably do need these power plants because we have plants that are basically old, inefficient," said Scott M. Cullen, counsel to the Star Foundation, an East Hampton organization that promotes clean energy.

I'm basically old in every way but my age.

The core of Denver Post Politics Editor Chuck Plunkett's written explanation for scrubbing the piece is that it was basically old news.

He was building to some sort of point, decrying Republicans and Democrats, saying, "You can support Democrats, who are basically socialists, or you can support Republicans, who are basically old Democrats".

"We're basically old-fashioned people," Elizabeth told O magazine.

Why? Basically, old-fashioned trade deals are a victim of their own success: there just isn't much more protectionism to eliminate.

Like Arbus, he photographed in black-and-white, in a square format and a basically old-fashioned style, the subjects usually alone and centered in the frame.

As one Scottish and very-New-Labour MP at Westminster admitted ruefully: "It's basically old-style municipal socialism with an overlay of political correctness".Fortunately, there is plenty of money slopping around to pay for all this.

As if all that were not enough, dealing with a light-water reactor's long-lived radioactive byproducts remains a Faustian nightmare.Passive safety features aside, the new generation of reactors being hawked around the world are still basically old-fashioned light-water reactors with solid-fuel cores that are cooled and moderated by water.