Sentence examples for had basically given from inspiring English sources

Strickler admits he had basically given up.

By Sunday morning, Yankees reliever Dave Robertson had basically given up on making his first All-Star team.

At 50, he had basically given up trying to socialize and was trapped in an unhappy marriage.

Mr. Stafford said they had basically given up on calling the Prince George's County Police Department or the State Police.

Right up to the end, when his heart, his legs and his lungs had basically given up — he even had his teeth removed to avoid infection — Mailer remained in the game, always working on the next big book on the next big subject.

That is to say I actually had signal in the SoMa district of San Francisco, which is something that I had basically given up on long ago.

No. Superhero movies are made for a society that has basically given up.

"The church has basically given its building to the caterer," said Phyllis H. Weisberg, a lawyer for the coalition.

So far, foreign investors have basically given the United States a pass, as reflected in the low interest rates that the Treasury pays on ten- and thirty-year bonds.

"They've basically given up the battle of competing with Time and Newsweek directly and carved out this niche of being the ranker".

Leonard Rubenstein, of Physicians for Human Rights, argues that "the Administration has basically given a green light for medical personnel to participate in abuse".