basket

Example Sentences

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Firstly, while you are standing there pouting, our opponents are racing to their basket with a five-on-four advantage.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 4, 2026

“If it were a couple years ago, I’d go to the store and put it in the basket and not really think about it,” Wallace said.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 3, 2026

But Melanie Ferguson, a content creator behind the Southern Crush at Home platform, suggests other affordable ways to garner or fashion a basket on the cheap.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 2, 2026

Every meal begins with a basket of hot, fresh pão de queijo—chewy, cheesy, and hard to stop eating.

From Salon • Mar. 31, 2026

A faint hum came from the nests in the basket.

From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff