How to Use bedrock in a Sentence

bedrock

noun
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  • His religious beliefs are the bedrock on which his life is based.
  • They dug down for 10 feet before they hit bedrock.
  • And that's been the bedrock of the brand from the beginning.
    — Antonia Debianchi, Peoplemag, 6 Dec. 2022
  • Trust is the bedrock of any agreement, but there is a deficit of trust right now.
    — Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, Fortune, 20 Nov. 2023
  • Hip hop is a bedrock of pop culture, always at the cusp.
    — Jason Parham, WIRED, 7 Aug. 2023
  • This is one of the bedrock truths of the American family.
    — J. Kim Murphy, Variety, 9 Feb. 2024
  • There’s the old adage that trauma is the bedrock of great comedy.
    — Lorraine Ali, Los Angeles Times, 9 Nov. 2023
  • The bedrock of true, solid friendship is being there for the hard things.
    — Paige McGlauflin, Fortune, 29 Sep. 2022
  • But the West's history and land have proved his creative bedrock.
    — Lynn Elber, Arkansas Online, 15 Nov. 2022
  • Several key treaties over past decades form the bedrock of the partnership between the U.S. and the Philippines.
    — Time, 22 Nov. 2022
  • The biggest part of that work was the installation of tie-back anchors into the bedrock.
    — Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Mar. 2024
  • This standard is the bedrock of our legal system and must be upheld.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Dec. 2023
  • One study analyzed the pebbles to understand the bedrock beneath the ice sheet.
    — Paul Bierman, Fortune, 24 July 2023
  • The robot was sent through it to examine the glacier's grounding line, where ice is in contact with bedrock.
    — George Petras, USA Today, 16 Feb. 2023
  • And now, their efforts are the bedrock of No. 3 Alabama’s right tackle.
    — Nick Alvarez | Nalvarez@al.com, al, 6 Sep. 2023
  • And yet, this bedrock assumption seems to conflict with the universe that surrounds us.
    — Charlie Wood, Quanta Magazine, 26 Sep. 2022
  • The lengthy tracking process was necessary in part because pythons can hide in the Swiss-cheese-like local bedrock.
    — Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 20 Mar. 2023
  • But the crew soon hit impenetrable bedrock and could only watch as water lapped at the crest of the dam.
    — Popular Mechanics, 12 Jan. 2023
  • The huge increase in rates for everything from small business to credit card loans lifts the value of that bedrock base.
    — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 1 May 2023
  • Though crime remains the bedrock of new series orders, si-fi, in contrast haș edged down.
    — John Hopewell, Variety, 25 July 2023
  • He’s supposed to be a veteran bedrock of the Rockies’ future.
    — Patrick Saunders, The Denver Post, 9 Feb. 2024
  • As the rupture passes through the hilly neighborhoods of San Francisco to your north and west, the sturdy bedrock mutes the earth’s motion.
    — WIRED, 15 June 2023
  • They were created by large ice sheets which carved out the area's bedrock during a glacial period.
    — Molly McArdle, Travel + Leisure, 22 Mar. 2023
  • The allure of coastal living is carved into the bedrock of our collective psyche.
    — Lucy Alexander, Robb Report, 5 Mar. 2023
  • The tomb, carved into limestone bedrock, is estimated to be about 2,300 years old, said Haaretz.
    — Christine Rousselle, Fox News, 8 Oct. 2023
  • For decades they have been viewed as the ultimate safe asset — the bedrock of the global financial system.
    — Jeff Sommer, New York Times, 2 June 2023
  • Where the ice first departs from the seafloor is called the ‘’grounding line’' — the three-dimensional intersection of ice, ocean, and bedrock.
    — Chris Mooney, BostonGlobe.com, 15 Feb. 2023
  • Doctors caring for patients in their own practices used to be the bedrock of our health care system — and for good reason.
    — Paul Berggreen, STAT, 15 Feb. 2024
  • Fear may be a linchpin of horror, but as a recent anthology attests, the true bedrock of the genre is mood.
    — Stephen Kearse, The Atlantic, 26 Jan. 2024
  • In those three key races, Democrats have underperformed in a state that is usually the bedrock of their power.
    — Time, 9 Nov. 2022

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