4 Sentences With "basketfuls"

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When he meets the Ghost of Christmas Present, a colossal and very pleasant puppet, Scrooge faces basketfuls of produce and bread spread across a living room. from Vice
They all ate and were satisfied, and the disciples picked up twelve basketfuls of broken pieces that were left over. The number of those who ate was about five thousand men (other gospels added "besides women and children").
Slowly a few local merchants were attracted to the townsite; some came from the now-defunct town of New Michigan in northern Livingston County. David Williams put up a shack and began to sell "a few basketfuls of groceries and notions".History of Livingston, 1878, p.360.
To provide glimpse of his rather surreal experiences an example is cited here: On one silent night, while Dr Khuplam was deep in prayer, his concentration was disturbed by the sound of croaking frogs around his house. It was during the monsoon season and so the particular amphibians were about in plenty. Exasperated, he cursed the frogs, and immediately the sound started to fade, and then ceased completely. The next morning, lo and behold, there were dead frogs all around the house, of which the children collected two to three basketfuls.