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basket

noun as in woven container

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Love means never having to say you're sorry... even if it leads to a gift basket.

He was this wonderful, elegant man who thought the world was going to hell in a hand basket.

He was duped into silly offensive fouls when smaller men moved in behind him as he powered toward the basket.

But his greatest gifts remain in the classic pivot—close in with his back to the basket.

If not for the writing and singing of songs, she might very well be a basket case.

Here there was a scuffling sound in the basket, and the Roc rapped on the cover with her hard beak, and cried, "Hush!"

About her neck was hung a covered basket and a door-key; and Davy at once concluded that she was Sindbad's house-keeper.

Then the croupier tears open two packets of new cards, flinging the old ones into a waste-paper basket at his side.

When the days were fine, Jean in his basket assisted at the dramatic performance in the market-place.

Below the round thing hung a square basket, with many ropes, and other things, fast to it.

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On this page you'll find 16 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to basket, such as: box, crate, bassinet, bin, bushel, and cradle.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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