Sentences with basket case
bas·ket case
B b - The country is an economic basket case with chronic unemployment and rampant crime.
- A basket-case economy
- Right after the war the conquered nation was considered an economic basket case.
- She was a complete basket case the morning of her wedding.
- This country is a financial basket case, a country so broke that it should be a perfect warning to lenders. Some countries are breadbaskets, others basket cases.