BASKET in a Sentence
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179 example sentences for BASKET, such as:
1. Don't put all your eggs in one basket.
2. Do not pull all your eggs in one basket.
3. I consigned her letter to the waste basket.
4. The player dropped the ball through the basket.
5. The large log basket can be used to tidy toys away.
2. Do not pull all your eggs in one basket.
3. I consigned her letter to the waste basket.
4. The player dropped the ball through the basket.
5. The large log basket can be used to tidy toys away.
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Meanings and Examples of BASKET
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basket
n. the quantity contained in a basket
n. a container that is usually woven and has handles
Classic Sentence: (158 in 11 pages)
1 From within the house floated the soft voice of Scarlett's mother, Ellen O'Hara, as she called to the little black girl who carried her basket of keys.
2 As each offering went into the basket, there was applause and cheering.
3 The grinning little man was coming to their booth now, his basket heavy on his arm, and as he passed Rhett Butler a handsome gold cigar case was thrown carelessly into the basket.
4 When he came to Scarlett and rested his basket upon the counter, she shook her head throwing wide her hands to show that she had nothing to give.
5 Fanny Elsing and the Bonnell girls, roused early from slumber, were yawning on the back seat and the Elsings' mammy sat grumpily on the box, a basket of freshly laundered bandages on her lap.
6 She picked up a large split-oak basket and started down the back stairs, each step jouncing her head until her spine seemed to be trying to crash through the top of her skull.
7 She sat down in the furrows and dug into the earth with hands that shook, filling her basket slowly.
8 And, as Scarlett settled the heavy basket across her arm, she had settled her own mind and her own life.
9 Then she started down the road toward Tara, the heavy basket cutting into her flesh.
10 Hastily she picked up the solitaire ring and the diamond earbobs from where she had hidden them in her sewing basket and shoved them into the wallet.
11 Every morning he went out importantly with a basket to pick up twigs and chips to start the fires with.
12 It was a warm morning and Melanie sat on the vine-shaded porch, her mending basket piled high with socks.
13 Puzzled by the sudden change in her tone, he mechanically gathered a handful of wood from the basket and tossed it on the fire.
14 She ran down the gravelly embankment, smiled at children gathering flowers in a little basket, thrust a handful of the soft pasque flowers into the bosom of her white blouse.
15 They were entertained by Vida in the parlor of Mrs. Elisha Gurrey's boarding-house, with its steel engraving of Grant at Appomattox, its basket of stereoscopic views, and its mysterious stains on the gritty carpet.
Example Sentence: (21 in 2 pages)
1 Don't put all your eggs in one basket.
2 The player dropped the ball through the basket.
3 The snake charmer reached out gingerly to touch the snake in his basket.
4 The fruit - picker in the tree passed the fruit to the man who stood at the foot with a basket.
5 The country is an economic basket case with chronic unemployment and rampant crime.
6 By the end of the course I was a complete basket case.
7 The fruit-picker up the tree passed the fruit down to his partner who stood at the foot with a basket.
8 He retrieved the important letter from the waste paper basket.
9 The large log basket can be used to tidy toys away.
10 I consigned her letter to the waste basket.
11 Dan tore the page out, crumpled it, and threw it in the wastepaper basket.
12 After reading the letter, he threw it in the waste - paper basket.
13 Do not pull all your eggs in one basket.
14 It takes great skill to weave a basket from/out of rushes.
15 To buy stock in a single company is to have all your eggs in one basket.