bucket

Example Sentences

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She advises Mitchum to create a spending bucket—perhaps 10% to 20% of her take-home pay each month—that she can use to upgrade her lifestyle without feeling guilty or second-guessing herself.

From The Wall Street Journal

“It would be pretty much the last bucket I think a company would ever try to write on their own.”

From MarketWatch

In her closet, Renata kept a plastic bucket of discarded stuff—old switches and dials and buttons; the insides of broken radios and electronic games.

From Literature

We all knew she stole pie out of our lunch buckets at school.

From Literature

Breakfast? she asked, sending an image of her bucket of milk, along with her question feeling.

From Literature