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How to use basket in a sentence

40 example sentences · noun, verb

Basket means a lightweight woven container, generally round, open at the top, and tapering toward the bottom. Example: “A basket of fake fruit adorned the table.”

Examples of basket by meaning

nounA lightweight woven container, generally round, open at the top, and tapering toward the bottom.

  • A basket of fake fruit adorned the table.
  • The earliest Wabanaki baskets were strong and bulky; practical tools for everyday life.2026 May, Hannah Martin, “Fancy Baskets”, in Architectural Digest, volume 83, number 4, page 97

nounA set or collection of intangible things.

  • The basket of issues that developing countries had vigorously wanted addressed such as agriculture, SANDD and implementation-related issues were given scant attention by developed countries for most part of the conference.2004, Gichinga Ndirangu, Heinrich Böll Foundation (Nairobi, Kenya), An African civil society action toward WTO 2003 (page 16)

nounA circular hoop, from which a net is suspended, which is the goal through which the players try to throw the ball.

  • The point guard drove toward the basket.

nounThe act of putting the ball through the basket, thereby scoring points.

  • The last-second basket sealed the victory.

nounThe game of basketball.

  • Let's play some basket.

nounThe gondola or wicker basket suspended from the balloon, in which the pilot and passengers travel.

  • For every dedicated scientist patiently recording atmospheric pressure and wind speed while shivering at high altitudes, there is a carnival barker with a bevy of pretty girls willing to dangle from a basket or parachute down to earth.2013 June 7, David Simpson, “Fantasy of navigation”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 26, page 36

nounBastard.

  • Wait till I catch you, you little basket!

nounA drogue (or para-drogue) in the probe-and-drogue refueling method.

  • Don't smoosh the basket.

More sentences with basket

  • Little by little I pushed the snake into the basket, until finally all of it was in.From the entry in
  • We went primrosing on Sunday and returned with a full basket.From the entry primrose
  • She was a complete basket case the morning of her wedding.From the entry basket case
  • She claimed that aspen was the only "proper" material from which to make a wicker basket.From the entry aspen
  • A garbologist forages through waste paper baskets in search of interesting documents.From the entry garbologist
  • Keep up those hotshot baskets, and the scouts are sure to take notice.From the entry hotshot
  • Scoring a basket in basketball is worth two or three points.From the entry scoring
  • The basket of consumer goods in the United States Consumer Price Index has changed little this year.From the entry consumer good
  • The rising cost of the basket of goods hints at inflation.From the entry basket of goods
  • You need to get up into him or he's gonna keep sinking baskets.From the entry get up into
  • Number the baskets so that we can find them easily.From the entry number
  • She wove a beautiful basket out of reeds.From the entry wove
  • That basket doesn't count—you forgot to check!From the entry check
  • The cat jumped out of the basket.From the entry out of
  • This country is a financial basket case, a country so broke that it should be a perfect warning to lenders.From the entry basket case
  • Put all the woolens in this basket.From the entry woolen
  • The stock market decline wouldn’t have hurt him so badly if he hadn’t had all his eggs in one basket.From the entry all one's eggs in one basket
  • At his age, he won't get another shot; he really has all his eggs in this one basket.From the entry all one's eggs in one basket
  • Using the sophisticated code was useless since the spy merely stole the plain text from the waste basket.From the entry plain text
  • They felt that buying more real estate than they already had would be putting all their eggs in one basket.From the entry put all one's eggs in one basket
  • Her macrame basket hangers are so well knotted.From the entry knotted
  • For quotations using this term, see Citations:fire basket.From the entry fire basket
  • To separate out the chaff, early cultures tossed baskets of grain into the air and let the wind blow away the lighter chaff.From the entry chaff
  • They raffled off four gift baskets.From the entry raffle
  • They have been replaced in the ONS basket with a “formal jacket or blazer”.2022 April 18, Rupert Neate, “The end of the suit: has Covid finished off the menswear staple?”, in The Guardian. From the entry ons
  • Chip clutched a basket brimming with real potatoes against his red flannel shirt.2020, Allison Marks, Wayne Marks, chapter 6, in Benny Feldman’s All-star Klezmer Band, Barnsley, South Yorkshire: Green Bean Books, Pen &…. From the entry rootin' tootin'
  • She fished a napkin out of the basket and put the slice of bruschetta on it.2018, Cerella Sechrist, The Way Back to Erin, Harlequin, →ISBN. From the entry bruschetta
  • I pile mounds of bunny grass—the kind you put in Easter baskets—and top them with papiermâché rabbits.2017, Patricia Altschul, Deborah Davis, The Art of Southern Charm, →ISBN. From the entry bunny grass
  • A lot of consumers are moving away from one big shop a week to ‘basket shopping’.2016 May 4, Emma Reynolds, quoting Brian Walker, “Woolies’ woes promise cheaper prices for customers”, in new.com.au. From the entry big shop
  • Three women standing beneath were gathering fruits in baskets made of bamboo.2015, Chandra Prakash Kala, Nanda's Neelkanth, page 53. From the entry kafal
  • Hefty patties stacked high with fresh toppings are accompanied by a basket of “frings”–fries and rings.2015, DK Eyewitness Travel Guide USA, page 713. From the entry frings

Meaning of basket

  1. noun A lightweight woven container, generally round, open at the top, and tapering toward the bottom.
  2. noun A bed for a cat.
  3. noun A wire or plastic container similar in shape to a basket, used for carrying articles for purchase in a shop.

Full definition of basket

Questions about basket in a sentence

How do you use basket in a sentence?
Basket is used as a noun and verb. For example: “A basket of fake fruit adorned the table.”
What is a short sentence with basket?
“Don't smoosh the basket.”
What does basket mean?
Basket means a lightweight woven container, generally round, open at the top, and tapering toward the bottom.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: basket (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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