In this splendid isolation I cannot hope to illuminate primary investigations with the searching light in which science basks unblinkingly, for the nearest library of text-books is close on a thousand miles away.
The hero of love's tender passion, Who basks in its mystical ray, As we journey along, but never a song For the hero we meet every day.
And then she ketched a sight of the alpacker dress Jenette wuz a-makin' and she said "that basks had gone out.
Basks wuz out, fer she knew it, she had all her new ones made polenay.
And where, in lichened hoariness, The broken marble dial-plate Basks in the Summer's sultriness, Rich houri roses palpitate.
The freckled snake crawls o'er the floor, Tongues at the shadows in the door, And where the musty mosses run Basks in the sun.
Or, it basks its broad side on the bank of the Avon, which photographs its walls and towers and turrets every bright day in the centuries.
Their greatness hath perished from them, they sleep amidst ruins, their palaces and their shrines are tombs, the serpent coils in the grass of their streets, the lizard basks in their solitary halls.
Back to gardens of delight, Taking flight, His auroral spirit basks in dreams divine.
Just so much sunshine as the cottage child Basks in delighted, while the cottager Takes off his bonnet, as he ceases work, To catch the more of it--and it must fall Heavily on my brother!
Where love feasts crowned, and basks in such a glare As hearts of suns burn, in thine eyes and hair, Unutterable with raveled fires that cheat The ardent clay of me and make me air.
No one can tell with what happiness Colonel Lockhart basks in the sunlight of her presence, though when she runs her white fingers through his hair, she wonders at the silver threads that shine in the brown, clustering curls.
The turtle basks on the long incline of stranded logs.
The completed woodpile basks in the growing warmth, as responsive to the touch of spring as if every trunk yet upheld its branches in the forest.
And yet she never seems to me to get much genuine, unalloyed pleasure out of her garden; she never basks in its beauty—though for the matter of that Miss Bretherton never basks anywhere!
As the leopard springs on his prey, so does man rejoice over his riches, and, like the lion's cub, basks in the sunshine of slothfulness.
The Basks and Albanians he does not pretend to have affiliated; but he does not, for this reason, absolutely isolate them.
The speech, however, of the latter is simply African; whilst, in form and colour, the Basks and Albanians are European.
Even if it be not so, it only embraces the Basks and Albanians; so that the so-called Indo-Europeans still stand over.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "basks" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
