fundament

Example Sentences

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And fundament is an old euphemism for “buttocks.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 7, 2026

Stevo Pendarovski, president of North Macedonia, called peace “the fundament of everything.”

From Seattle Times • Sep. 23, 2023

The Princeton-based composer, 32, collapses perceptions between East and West, electronic and acoustic, fundament and future.

From Washington Post • Jan. 22, 2022

It is not only a vector by which “religion” enters public discourse, but a crucial means by which we identify and measure the merits of “religion”: a corrosive fundament, a wince-inducing distraction, a necessary corrective.

From Salon • Sep. 17, 2013

Use.—Astringent injections are used in all cases where it is desired to contract the living fibre, as in scouring, dysentery, scouring rot, diarrhœa, bloody flux, falling of the womb, fundament, &c.

From The American Reformed Cattle Doctor by Dadd, George