clothes basket

Example Sentences

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I was hanging out the wash and tripped over the clothes basket.

From "Doing Time Online" by Jan Siebold

He took the blue cloth out of the dirty clothes basket.

From "The Devil's Arithmetic" by Jane Yolen

“Chuck! Can you bring me Melody’s pink T-shirt from the clean clothes basket? She spilled juice all over her shirt!”

From "Out of My Mind" by Sharon M. Draper

A large number of miscellaneous and unbreakable articles—balls, boots, potatoes, books, and so on—are divided into two exactly equal groups, and each group is placed in a clothes basket.

From What Shall We Do Now?: Five Hundred Games and Pastimes by Fisher, Dorothy Canfield

Now then, youngsters, run out and hop in, but don’t touch anything, or you may be in a worse predicament than when you were in the clothes basket elevator.”

From The Corner House Girls on a Houseboat How they sailed away, what happened on the voyage, and what was discovered by Hill, Grace Brooks