Examples of 'basket case' in a sentence

Meaning of "basket case"

In colloquial terms, a basket case refers to someone who is emotionally or mentally unstable, often unable to cope with the demands of everyday life
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  • Someone (especially a soldier) who has lost all four limbs.
  • An institution or country in a bad condition or difficult situation (economically, financially or otherwise).
  • One made powerless or ineffective, as by nerves, panic, stress or exhaustion; someone considered mentally unstable.

How to use "basket case" in a sentence

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Let it make a basket case out of you.
You are turning into a total basket case.
I was such a basket case at the end of that.
I am sorry for being an epic basket case lately.
You are not a basket case because you were loved.
They will make me out to be a basket case.
I was a complete basket case for three days.
No country in the world is a hopeless basket case.
I am gonna be a basket case every time.
Cause you are a professional basket case.
He was a total basket case before he had something to focus on.
Stop listening to this basket case.
I am gonna be a basket case when she goes off to college.
I see an alky and a basket case.
Turns out being a basket case is total private school bait.

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Cos you are a professional basket case.
Venezuela is a basket case and there is little doubt about it.
I can not believe he was a basket case a week ago.
You see it very often when somebody dies and a person becomes a literal basket case.
Give me a modulated basket case any day.
But it is getting neither and is fast becoming a basket case.
To have a disgraced basket case as a husband.
I spent my whole life thinking my mom was a basket case.
I am not the only basket case in the family.
They put me in a room with that basket case.
She the basket case.
It is easy to write off the continent as a basket case.
You are a basket case.
They have the audacity to put me in a room with a basket case.
Psychotic basket case.
The gene therapy is what turned him into a basket case.
What a basket case.
You are gonna be a complete basket case.
Or a basket case.
Sometimes you accept a basket case.
Zimbabwe would transform from a basket case to a global banking centre in a stable crypto currency.
The tertiary education system is a basket case anyway.
Basket Case is an amazing super low budget movie.
I will probably be a basket case by then.
You can not go live with a fresh out of rehab alcoholic basket case.
Africa was not always the basket case of the world.
Basket Case was not an overnight success.
You were never a basket case.
I was a basket case by the time that Sunday rolled around.
My first bike was a basket case.
I would become a basket case if I had to go through what your going through.
Brittain is an absolute basket case.
I would like to think Basket Case had a lot to do with that.
But the rest of the time she was a basket case.
Tom is a basket case.

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