How to Use market basket in a Sentence

market basket

noun
  • Cooking from what was in the market basket was the easy part for Mamba.
    — Susan Selasky, Detroit Free Press, 1 Mar. 2023
  • The open handles are great for transportation—this could even be your go-to farmer’s market basket.
    — Liv Birdsall, USA TODAY, 5 Nov. 2020
  • Tart and fresh, with a splash of red-berry fruits—not market basket fresh, but more like freshly picked off the bush—and a little bramble.
    — Lana Bortolot, Forbes.com, 29 June 2025
  • The market basket assumes a family eats more than 5 pounds of beans a week, for example.
    — Mike Dorning, chicagotribune.com, 3 May 2021
  • With a Provençal market basket, Coastal Grandmother is good to go.
    — Rory Satran, WSJ, 30 Apr. 2022
  • The market basket also includes pork chops, cheese, pork and beans, potato chips, ice cream, and strawberries.
    — Vanessa Yurkevich, CNN, 27 June 2023
  • Other items include placemats, a bean jar, and a market basket perfectly designed to be slung over one arm.
    — Elise Taylor, Vogue, 19 Oct. 2022
  • Inflation represents changes in the cost of a market basket of goods (such as groceries and fuel).
    — John M. Bremen, Forbes.com, 30 Jan. 2026
  • The consumer price index is a measure of the average change over time in the prices paid by urban consumers for a market basket of consumer goods and services.
    — Ivana Pino, Fortune, 12 Jan. 2023
  • The reappraisal culminates a yearslong campaign by anti-hunger advocates to reassess the market basket.
    — Mike Dorning, chicagotribune.com, 3 May 2021
  • Together, these components constitute a little more than half of the average market basket.
    — David Wilcox, CNN, 25 Oct. 2022
  • But there are other problems with the COLA and arguably more serious than the market basket used.
    — Teresa Ghilarducci, Forbes.com, 10 Aug. 2025
  • The seven-story structure is a replica of the company’s popular medium market basket -- just 160 times as large.
    — Susan Glaser, cleveland, 17 Oct. 2019
  • This was the largest one-year increase since November 1990 for the index, which tracks price stickers on a market basket of everyday goods and services.
    — Catherine Thorbecke, ABC News, 21 Nov. 2021
  • Instead, candidates receive a market basket full of ingredients and must design a menu using all of those ingredients that reflects their personal cooking style.
    — Mark Kurlyandchik, Detroit Free Press, 16 Oct. 2017
  • Aldi’s prices were 44 percent lower than the all-store average for Checkbook’s full-market basket; Lidl’s were 36 percent lower.
    — Kevin Brasler, Washington Post, 21 Feb. 2023
  • Shopping for the spread costs about 2% less this year, according to Indiana Farm Bureau’s Thanksgiving market basket survey.
    — Cheryl V. Jackson, The Indianapolis Star, 25 Nov. 2024
  • Despite the objectively minor contribution of eggs to the consumer’s overall market basket, people are apparently highly alert to, and upset by, the price increase of about 10 cents per egg over the past year.
    — George Calhoun, Forbes, 5 Feb. 2023
  • Country Living's team loves the ritual of heading to the farmers' market (with our favorite market baskets) during the summer and even harvesting fresh produce from our very own backyard gardens and raised gardening beds.
    — Country Living, 28 July 2023
  • The consumer price index -- a measure of the prices Americans pay for a market basket of everyday goods and services -- jumped 7% over the last 12 months, the Labor Department said Wednesday.
    — Catherine Thorbecke, ABC News, 12 Jan. 2022
  • Since 1986, the American Farm Bureau Federation has been analyzing the cost of a market basket of foods needed to make a traditional holiday meal, giving shoppers an idea of what to expect.
    — Susan Selasky, Detroit Free Press, 20 Nov. 2024

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