bucket

Example Sentences

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Call it a wish list, bucket list or checklist — the dashboard is all yours.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 10, 2026

New York relinquished a bucket of first-round draft picks to land Bridges, who, like Josh Hart, is a former Villanova teammate of Brunson’s, and the ROI had been meh.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 8, 2026

If you take that to heart, your first step might not be to think about increasing your dividend yields, but rather to increase your cash bucket.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 3, 2026

That’s a drop in the bucket compared with Musk, who holds External link 6.4 billion shares of SpaceX.

From Barron's • May 22, 2026

“You got to put them where it’s hot, and this shed gets like a boiler,” Junior explained as he plunged his hand into the bucket and ever so gently pulled out an egg.

From "The Seven Wonders of Sassafras Springs" by Betty G. Birney