Example Sentences

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Men heap basketfuls of human knowledge and spiritual endeavor onto a smoking fire, while in the background classical columns, arches and pediments define the surrounding architecture as distinctly of the Renaissance.

From Washington Post • Dec. 30, 2022

Through the streets it was raining roses�white ones, red ones, pink ones, yellow ones, in bunches and basketfuls, automobiles full, motor trucks full.

From Time Magazine Archive

I caught many basketfuls of sai-sai and put them out in the sun.

From "Island of the Blue Dolphins" by Scott O'Dell

There were two basketfuls of charcoal and at least half another scattered over the floor.

From "Johnny Tremain" by Esther Hoskins Forbes

“I will get the shells, that I will gladly, as many basketfuls as you may want; only tell me when I bring them if there are not enough, and I will get more.”

From Won from the Waves by Greene, John B.