Sentence examples for basically pick from inspiring English sources

"The rules basically pick the winners and losers," he said, with the winners being the big banks.

"If you're earning millions per year, if you're able to pay an army of lawyers and accountants to basically pick and choose what tax you are paying, if you are paying as low as 25%, 20% or even less in tax, there should be a minimum fair share that you should pay to society.

To get a sense of the degree of contempt these two men have for the process, just consider that they are perfectly happy to allow a Bush supporter and Republican Party functionary, Florida's secretary of state, Katherine Harris, to basically pick the president of the United States by ordering a cutoff of hand counts in various counties at a time when Mr. Bush was barely 300 votes ahead.

Basically pick a name and they were there.

Not only does this clock look absolutely insane (you basically pick sounds and "stack" them under Windows, adding Frog, Cuckoo, and Hammer noises to your morning wake-up call) it was pitched to us as a product that we at CrunchGear might want to sell.

Basically pick your needed oomph for the day, and there's a Ted Talk for that.

"Right now, you're basically picking money off the ground," Mr. Mulholland said.

They sent me three tracks and I basically picked the one I thought would be best.

"He said, 'I basically picked you because I thought you could help me govern,' " Ryan said.

I just basically picked one out of the hat and put them on the website.

The chat shows of the era – Wogan and Aspel, basically – picked from a familiar pool of safe mid-1980s TV faces.