basketful
[ bas-kit-fool, bah-skit- ]
Origin of basketful
1usage note For basketful
See -ful.
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How to use basketful in a sentence
I took her a basketful of fresh eggs, and she promised me some waffles and scrambled eggs.
That Old-Time Child, Roberta | Sophie Fox SeaHe's just a basketful of festering, pestilent corruption, provided for the support and entertainment of microbes.
Mark Twain, A Biography, 1835-1910, Complete | Albert Bigelow PaineThe two latter had gone down among the trees near the beach to get the last basketful of moss to complete the work of adornment.
Peak's Island | Ford PaulShame upon our ancestors—we'll gather them ourselves, and frank a whole basketful to Europe.
Poems of The Third Period | Friedrich SchillerYou'll take me, daddy, won't yer—'cos I've picked a lot of samphire—all that, and another basketful up there?
A Sailor's Lass | Emma Leslie
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