clothes basket

Example Sentences

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“Chuck! Can you bring me Melody’s pink T-shirt from the clean clothes basket? She spilled juice all over her shirt!”

From "Out of My Mind" by Sharon M. Draper

He took the blue cloth out of the dirty clothes basket.

From "The Devil's Arithmetic" by Jane Yolen

I was hanging out the wash and tripped over the clothes basket.

From "Doing Time Online" by Jan Siebold

A large number of miscellaneous and unbreakable articles—balls, boots, potatoes, books, and so on—are divided into two exactly equal groups, and each group is placed in a clothes basket.

From What Shall We Do Now?: Five Hundred Games and Pastimes by Fisher, Dorothy Canfield

A story is told, and it is claimed to be true, of a woman who, while washing clothes on the bank of a river, placed her baby in the clothes basket to keep it safe.

From Stories Pictures Tell Book Four by Carpenter, Flora L.