Sentence examples for as basket from inspiring English sources

"We define poverty alleviation for Africans as basket weaving.

"But how long does the washing go on?" I asked, as basket after basket passed by.

He thus had little formal education, spending hours on his back or in simple pursuits such as basket weaving.

The late JK Galbraith once noted that the left needed to be smarter about management than the right, since it insisted on taking under its control industries which the private sector had given up as basket cases.

Open fire cooking demonstrations and a chance to taste some Gypsy cuisine are complemented by the chance to sample other traditional skills, such as basket making, lace weaving, peg making and wagon painting.

In my view driving a cab will empower these girls in a way that no other vocation such as basket weaving, tailoring or candle-making ever can," she adds.

In his recent tally of the woes afflicting Hartford (April 30), Colin McEnroe neglects to note the city's biggest problem: professional nay-sayers like himself who seem to take perverse pleasure in their Hartford-as-basket-case views.

This elliptical shape of arch, in which the rise-to-span ratio was as low as 1 7, became known as basket-handled and has been adopted widely since.

Today, the Gullah people – so called from the verbal corruption of their original homeland, Angola – still live in places such as Hog Hammock and maintain traditions which include a creole language, crafts such as basket-weaving, a heavily ritualised belief system (Low Country Voodoo) and a specific cuisine.

The nonprofit center, covering a roughly six-mile radius in the Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area, offers adult workshops in blacksmithing, fine metals and jewelry, photography, woodworking, fibers (such as basket-weaving) and special topics, including glass and fine art, as well as youth programs and public exhibitions.

Medicines, manufactured goods such as baskets, and other objects were also common items of exchange.