Sentence examples for basically served as from inspiring English sources

Instead, he has basically served as a mouthpiece for talking points dreamed up by the oil and gas industries.

By the end of the Tokugawa regime, the daimyo had become removed from the actualities of government and basically served as aristocratic figureheads in their domains.

With a cafe next door and a temporary studio down the road, the Cabanon basically served as an upscale beach shack.

Cross, injured in Thursday's preseason victory over Jacksonville, has basically served as a sixth offensive lineman who leaves the field in passing situations.

Committees of Safety basically served as provisional governments for their area.

But she was in the right place at the right time when her roommate in North Hollywood submitted a YouTube video that basically served as a band audition.

And social media basically serves as the tease, a kind of soft-core pornography.

Despite its symbolic importance, Mr. Calatrava's station would basically serve as an entry point to the PATH Trains and 14 subway lines.

Claude Makelele and Jeremy Toulalan were basically serving as auxillary centrebacks while Patrice Evra and Francois Clerc were visibly neutered, routinely declining to venture forward, no doubt under instructions.

They are the assistant general manager Don Maloney, who is basically serving as the interim general manager; and John Davidson, the longtime television analyst.

The decision, Mr. Noble said, will "basically serve as a warning shot across the bow" of soft-money fund-raisers that any connections to national party committees or party officials will be closely scrutinized.