Collocations for basket - noun

bamboo, plastic, straw, wicker, wire, woven, etc.
laundry, sewing
bread, food, fruit, shopping
waste (AmE), waste-paper (BrE)
She threw the letter into the waste basket.
I decided to empty the waste-paper basket.

cat, dog
bicycle
She was cycling along with her bicycle basket full of groceries.

picnic
flower, hanging
hanging baskets full of summer flowers

make, weave
fill, load (sth into), pack (sth into), put sth in
take sth from, take sth out of, unpack
carry, heave, pick up
She heaved the huge basket onto the table.

swing
put down, set down

be filled with sth, be full of sth, contain sth
a basket filled with delicious fruit

in a/the basket, into a/the basket
The cat lay curled in its basket.

basket of
a basket of flowers/fruit

shoot
make, score, sink