bucket
Example Sentences
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The florist-by-trade gestures behind her to hundreds of flowers contained in buckets — blue thistles, ivory anemones and calla lilies painted silver — all twisted and unfurling into the air.
From Los Angeles Times
“We believe it is the first bucket but hope it’s the third,” LaFemina says.
This, we all agreed, was a far cry from the magic sponge and bucket we all remembered as being the way we got treated many years ago.
From BBC
Jesse Livermore earned his nickname “Boy Plunger” in Boston’s so-called bucket shops, which took bets on price movements without actually buying or selling shares.
From Barron's
Jesse Livermore earned his nickname “Boy Plunger” in Boston’s so-called bucket shops, which took bets on price movements without actually buying or selling shares.
From Barron's
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