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basket

[ UK /bˈɑːskɪt/ ]
[ US /ˈbæskət/ ]
NOUN
  1. the quantity contained in a basket
  2. horizontal circular metal hoop supporting a net through which players try to throw the basketball
  3. a container that is usually woven and has handles
  4. a score in basketball made by throwing the ball through the hoop

How To Use basket In A Sentence

  • He watched them disappear from his view, his father still waddling along with that bloody basket.
  • She was carrying her overnight case and a basket of dried flowers-statice, strawflower, and immortelle in the pastel colors referred to in seed catalogues as "art shades": fawn, apricot, mauve, and pale yellow. Incubus
  • My girlfriend wants me to go to the basketball court.
  • It will also host the handball final and semifinals, wheelchair rugby and wheelchair basketball. Times, Sunday Times
  • Immersed in her ample lap, her adoring voice broadcasting stereophonically through her bosoms, I absorbed the sensationalistic stories and lush illustrations of baby Moses in his basket, later parting the very Red Sea. The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
  • In a 1983 ad, the Gillette man was depicted as the tiny weakling on a basketball court full of giants; his shaver, he said, helped him even the odds.
  • The light, a single bulb in an ethnic basket, was suspended from the ceiling and lit just the table.
  • When we gather it grain by grain, we soon have a basketful.
  • A reed basket of ha'penny nails to go with it lay in the jumble of objects at the far end of the table; something perhaps left behind by the carpenters who had furnished the room. Sick Cycle Carousel
  • PERRY: There's no question about it, parents who are comfortable with a child who gets a C or D, parents who are comfortable dropping their child off at a school that they no is ragged -- they have watched that school undereducate a generation or two -- parents who are willing to go down and fuss and fight when their child doesn't play on the basketball team, but are unwilling to go down and fight the same way when that child is not being served in -- in the classroom. CNN Transcript Oct 1, 2009
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