Sentence examples for basket down from inspiring English sources

Heaving, he set the basket down on the tar paper.

Three times he had to put the basket down to catch his breath.

He was hurt, put his basket down, and went after one of them.

4.38pm BST Spain 84 - USA 90, 8 29, 4th Quarter Chris Paul lays another basket down, and LeBron James strips the ball from Felipe Reyes on Spain's very next possession.

Basketball cards from the early 1990s of players like Tate George and Chris Morris, who etched "trade me" on his sneakers, were prominent, along with more memorable photographs, like one of a young Shaquille O'Neal ripping the basket down at the Meadowlands, the shot clock crashing onto his head.

According to Hoopdata, Parker is attempting two fewer field goal attempts at the rim per game this season, has connected on a mere 42.9 percent of his shots around the basket (down from 65.4 percent last season), and has compromised his typically aggressive shot selection by taking more mid-range jumpers.

I also think of the basket makers down in South Carolina, the Gullah people.

I'm the flower girl, my hands gloved and a flower basket hanging down from my neck with white ribbons.

Now someone is slamming a grocery basket upside down, releasing a bunch of live frogs; now a young woman is encircled by a grove of dead poplars; now snow leopards are descending upon the market in Pebble Town from Snow Mountain.

To fish with a handmade basket weighted down by a stone in a stream in South America, or to till rice fields from dawn to dusk in the Chinese countryside, protected from the sun by a hat woven from bamboo and banana skins.

When the game ended, the baskets came down and an orchestra filled the ballroom with music.