[
UK
/bˈɑːskɪt/
]
[ US /ˈbæskət/ ]
[ US /ˈbæskət/ ]
NOUN
- the quantity contained in a basket
- horizontal circular metal hoop supporting a net through which players try to throw the basketball
- a container that is usually woven and has handles
- 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.
- 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
- 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
- The electroplate manufacturers in North America in the late nineteenth century favored various plain square, oblong, and low round baskets and taller ones on a foot, resembling a compote.
- 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
