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

Venezuela is an economic basket case with a smaller population than Texas and virtually no functioning civil society.

From Salon

After a quippy kidnapping montage with Plemons and Aidan Delbis’ characters set to Green Day’s “Basket Case,” Stone is shown lying unconscious in a bed.

From Los Angeles Times