bucket

Example Sentences

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Over and over again, New York called on Brunson to get them another bucket to trim the seemingly insurmountable deficit.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 20, 2026

The race features showroom-style cars taking on the famous 15.8-mile circuit in the Eifel mountains in Germany and the 28-year-old had said it had "been on my bucket list for a long time".

From BBC • May 17, 2026

We can make a difference by influencing each other—by not only contributing drops into the bucket, but by showing others that we’re doing so, and, in the process, influencing them to do the same.

From Slate • May 15, 2026

Yes, the 1985 Steven Spielberg adventure, early in which Mikey, from his porch, opens the front gate for Chunk using a device that employs a bowling ball, bucket, balloon, chicken, football, and sprinkler.

From Barron's • May 14, 2026

“The bucket was in the camper,” he said.

From "Earthquake Terror" by Peg Kehret