How to Use basket case in a Sentence

basket case

noun

• I was so worried about losing my job that I was a complete basket case.
• Poor Hunter is a basket case, whose last run-in with the police was as recent as 2017 and who was kicked out of the Navy for drug abuse.
  — Nr Editors, National Review, 24 Oct. 2019
• In the economic basket case that is Venezuela, these are the hot new consumer products.
  — Patricia Laya, Bloomberg.com, 8 Dec. 2017
• In four decades, China went from a backward basket case to the second-largest economy on the planet.
  — Victor Davis Hanson, National Review, 17 Oct. 2019
• France is an economic basket case, its savior, Mr. Macron, plunging in the polls.
  — Josef Joffe, WSJ, 10 Sep. 2017
• Europe, long the basket case of the world economy, is now a leader in expansion.
  — Peter S. Goodman, New York Times, 22 Jan. 2018
• Venezuela, once among the hemisphere’s richest countries and boasting the world’s largest crude reserves, has turned into the regional basket case.
  — Jim Wyss and Cody Weddle, miamiherald, 16 May 2018
• How Governor Polis turned one of the country's strongest state economies into a basket case.
  — Ben Murrey, National Review, 2 July 2021
• However, the warning signs were ignored, and that’s why EDD is now an operational basket case.
  — Dan Walters, SFChronicle.com, 22 Oct. 2020
• Almost everywhere in the world – even in economic basket cases such as Brazil and Russia – growth is picking up.
  — Laurent Belsie, The Christian Science Monitor, 21 Oct. 2017
• Illinois is a fiscal basket case, so no new resources are forthcoming.
  — Gary MacDougal, WSJ, 8 Aug. 2018
• After all, remember, even Moses started out as a basket case, as author J.J. Jasper reminds us.
  — Kevin Dayhoff, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 5 Dec. 2021
• And there are plenty of replacements for a word like basket case, another good one to consider avoiding.
  — Katy Steinmetz, Time, 26 Apr. 2018
• The flip side of that argument was that D.C. was a fiscal basket case, wholly unsuited to be a state of its own without huge federal subsidies.
  — Dan McLaughlin, National Review, 1 Oct. 2020
• The next 12 months will decide whether Sunderland are indeed the basket case to which they have been portrayed, or made of similar ilk to the Rokermen who inspired years of relative success 31 years ago.
  — SI.com, 23 Apr. 2018
• Tottenham, meanwhile, is in seventh place and literally fired its manager on Monday; Arsenal, a basket case, is in tenth, and appears to be in the midst of a rebuild that will take years.
  — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 20 Apr. 2021
• The island nation of 11 million is a political and economic basket case.
  — Andrew Stuttaford, National Review, 23 July 2021
• Institutional failure isn’t enough by itself to create a basket case, though.
  — James MacKintosh, WSJ, 14 Aug. 2018
• His salary was outlandish by Japanese standards, but his greatest sin was making the firm into a corporate governance basket case.
  — Jeff Kingston For Cnn Business Perspectives, CNN, 17 Jan. 2020
• This brain-dead basket case suggested kidnapping and assaulting Donald Trump's child.
  — Fox News, 24 June 2018
• Far from being a basket case, Russia enters the crisis with bulging financial reserves, its big companies nearly free of debt and all but self-sufficient in agriculture.
  — Andrew E. Kramer, New York Times, 20 Mar. 2020
• Productivity plummeted — production of corn, Zimbabwe’s main staple, fell by two-thirds — and the country swung from being a net food exporter to a basket case within a few years.
  — Glenn Frankel, Washington Post, 6 Sep. 2019
• Italy is the third-largest economy in the eurozone, well integrated into the broader continental economy, and far less of an economic basket case than Greece, so Italians have more to lose in the event of such an upheaval.
  — Jonah Shepp, Daily Intelligencer, 30 May 2018
• Two decades ago Venezuela arguably had South America’s most prosperous and educated people as well as the world’s largest oil reserves, but 20 years of mismanagement turned the country into a fiscal basket case.
  — WSJ, 12 Oct. 2018
• Particularly vulnerable are those paying higher local income taxes, most of them living in and around the big coastal metros and the Midwest’s new basket case, Chicago.
  — Joel Kotkin, National Review, 12 Dec. 2017
• My grandfather bought it as a basket case before passing away unexpectedly.
  — Casey Williams, chicagotribune.com, 3 July 2018
• More importantly, the difference between becoming a success story like T-Mobile and a basket case like Sprint isn’t just network quality.
  — Washington Post, 29 July 2019
• For the past decade, international economists and ratings agencies have been blaming Italy’s gigantic debt load for making the nation the most worrisome basket case among Europe’s major economies.
  — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 14 Jan. 2021
• Illinois is the nation’s leading fiscal basket case, with runaway pension liabilities and public-union control of Springfield.
  — Andrew Stuttaford, National Review, 6 Oct. 2020
• China Minsheng Investment Group Corp., with interests in real estate and renewable energy, is the latest basket case.
  — Washington Post, 14 Feb. 2019

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