buckets

Example Sentences

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Every day, women queue with buckets beneath a white-hot sky.

From BBC • Jun. 1, 2026

Families rent crab pots and put their catch in plastic buckets held by delighted children.

From Los Angeles Times • May 14, 2026

Maurten’s head of sports tech, Josh Rowe, recalls how, not long ago, major races used to have sick buckets at the finish line for queasy finishers.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 28, 2026

He recommends dividing work tasks into three buckets.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 11, 2026

Twig’s dad is a banker in New York and makes buckets of money.

From "The Science of Breakable Things" by Tae Keller