basket case

Example Sentences

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They are still a basket case of a club, and you could say the same about West Ham.

From BBC

Fifteen years later, Libya remains a basket case of militias, warlords and weak institutions.

From Los Angeles Times

The supporters didn't want him to leave at the end of his second season in July this year, but thought he was better off out of the basket case.

From BBC

That aside, politics were kept to a minimum, as the group delivered a high-voltage blast of their greatest hits, from the bratty pop-punk of Basket Case to the more reflective Boulevard of Broken Dreams.

From BBC

Yet as the group roared through oldies like “Basket Case,” “Holiday,” “Welcome to Paradise,” “Longview” and “Brain Stew,” you never forgot that you were watching a once-scrappy punk trio; Green Day still puts across the charming zeal that powered its mainstream breakthrough in the post-grunge mid-’90s.

From Los Angeles Times