Sentence examples for was basically homemade from inspiring English sources
"But this movie was basically homemade.
Take the humble whiskey sour; a beautifully simple drink which is basically homemade lemonade (okay, so it does contain a fair bit of sugar) with a shot of whiskey in it... the brilliant thing about the whiskey sour is that you can make it as strong or, for a healthier option, as weak as you like.
Channel 4 responded by hiring, as its new marquee chaser, a former reality-show star named Reed Timmer, who drives possibly the most amazing vehicle in the world: a 10,000-pound S.U.V. called the Dominator, which is basically a homemade tank.
The menu combines some new-American gestures (cue mentions of sunchokes, the Hudson Valley, and things being "line-caught") with a style that is basically Italian: dishes include homemade corzetti (a coin-shaped pasta from Genoa) and a steamed egg with Gorgonzola-tinged polenta, which achieves a satisfying fusion of posset-like smoothness and cheesy tang.
The meal starts auspiciously, if far from healthily, with a homemade focaccia that is basically a meal in itself, topped with caramelized onions and crumbled Pecorino and drizzled with what seems like an olive grove's worth of oil.
We were basically stateless.
"They were basically lighthouses".
