Sentence examples for basically serving from inspiring English sources

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

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.

Saturday's game in Baton Rouge will be what has come to be known in college football circles as a guarantee game, in which a major-conference team pays a lower-division team basically serving as Christians to be thrown to the bigger school's lions.

Between movies being funded on Kickstarter, a critically acclaimed movie about Facebook, and Twitter basically serving as a backchannel for the Oscars, Hollywood increasingly has to reconcile itself with the Internet's influence on storytelling as well its power as a distribution mechanism.

It's basically serving the same purpose as your plate normally would.

NOTE however, that this means you aren't technically freeballing in your regular clothes since your gym shorts are basically serving as underwear.

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

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

These concepts are not helpful and basically serve the purpose of hiding the structural violence and poverty in India.

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.

"We basically serve the masses at David's Bridal," explains Robert Huth, David's C.E.O., who is based at David's headquarters, in Conshohocken, just outside Philadelphia.