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Recent Examples of basketThe two teams traded baskets to start the final period, but Dallas’ offense started to break away at the midway point.—Nathan Canilao, Mercury News, 18 June 2025 Use the extra storage space for board games, blankets, or a basket of your favorite candles.—Lauren Thomann, Better Homes & Gardens, 17 June 2025 To take stock of the performance of other typical safe havens since the start of the year: The dollar index, which measures the value of the greenback against a basket of currencies, has weakened close to 10% in the year to date.—Lee Ying Shan, CNBC, 17 June 2025 Vandersloot injured her right knee on a drive to the basket midway through the first quarter.—Ben Pickman, New York Times, 8 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for basket
Remove Suckers and Water Sprouts Suckers growing from the base or trunk of a citrus tree are vigorous shoots that grow rapidly and produce lots of new leaves that attract citrus leaf miners.
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Megan Hughes,
Better Homes & Gardens,
21 June 2025
The rash generally appears three to five days after the first symptoms, beginning as flat red spots on the face and then spreading downward to the neck, trunk, arms, legs and feet.
The videos circulating on social media show a yellow delivery truck, back door open with crates of tortillas and produce neatly stacked on the ground.
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Liz Baker,
NPR,
21 June 2025
Toss it in the backseat on a road trip, line their crate with it, or bring it to the park or backyard party — dogs will love it just as much as their favorite chew toy.
Bigge was leaning on the dugout rail — not far from the left-handed batter's box where Rutschman was stationed — when the ball hit the side of his face.
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Jon Paul Hoornstra,
MSNBC Newsweek,
20 June 2025
A lot of people have a lot of stereotypical ideas of it and people put me, or put us, in this whole box of Latin America.
The outcome of the voting split caused tensions to flare, and a male islander to pack their bags and go home.
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Taylor Ardrey,
USA Today,
18 June 2025
Last Tuesday afternoon, after her mother was taken from Glenn Valley Foods to a DHS holding facility, Rina Salado went to the plant to pick up her mother’s pink lunch bag.
Experts said a casket filled with decorative objects discovered at the site likely belonged to a prominent woman, and noted very few like it have ever been found.
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Lauren Liebhaber,
Miami Herald,
19 June 2025
On Wednesday, Tucker and her three sisters walked solemnly across the Woodland cemetery grounds with their brother in a casket covered with an American flag.
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