bucket

Example Sentences

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The sap-syrup yield has never changed: one bucket of syrup from every 40 buckets of sap, making even the most modern, mechanized forms of syrup production very labor intensive.

From The Wall Street Journal

Those delights can be as simple as looking up eco-friendly homemade shampoo formulas on Instagram or crushing a bucket of berries for seed collection to help restore native plants.

From Los Angeles Times

“It’s a black box in the beginning with the construction-in-progress bucket and then once the project is complete, it’s a black box in the back end,” Carnes said.

From The Wall Street Journal

Walking down Sixth Avenue in New York recently, I was mesmerized by a Salvation Army dude with his red donation bucket dancing to Mariah Carey’s “All I Want for Christmas Is You.”

From The Wall Street Journal

It’s not the commercial or banking bucket in which an activity is placed that makes it risky; it’s the activity and the way in which it is conducted.

From Barron's