Example sentences for: basket

How can you use “basket” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Yeah," he says,"I was passing the wash houseback of the farm kitchen,where I sometimes got handouts,and there's this passel of kittensin a basket, mewingtheir fuckn heads off.

  • In fact, Kagan says, Kissinger was skeptical of Basket III and had virtually nothing to do with it.

  • Time 's cover story, pegged to Clinton's Africa tour, says the continent is not the economic basket case it used to be: A number of countries (Uganda, Ghana, Eritrea, Mali) are embracing free market capitalism and thriving.

  • But the image is colored, too, by the existence, in both AE and BE, of a type of light, mobile hydraulic crane provided with a basket or platform enabling one to approach a tall structure (like an American ice-cream sundae) from above to pluck the cherry from the top.

  • Sometimes the shift can be quite subtle, as in Don't throw all your eggs into one basket , even though the simple verb-substitution renders the advice devastating to anyone but an omelet-maker.


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