bucket

Example Sentences

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Floorboards are loose, buckets collect water from the leaking roof, and the cafes are a mere facade.

From The Wall Street Journal

It wasn’t long before I had filled a bucket with blooms.

From The Wall Street Journal

“It’s a bucket list thing for me,” he said.

From Los Angeles Times

I swallowed hard and ignored the fact that the thought made my stomach feel like I’d swallowed a bucket of live snakes.

From Literature

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