bucket

Example Sentences

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When your cash and bonds are used up, you move on to this bucket, which is still supplemented by your Social Security benefits.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 1, 2026

Car purchases tend to weaken, for example, perhaps because in their mental accounting, people place cars and gasoline into the same spending bucket.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 31, 2026

The heat lingered around 100 degrees, and while Young danced and sang, she began to visibly gag and retch before running off the stage and asking for a bucket.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 31, 2026

"It's a drop in the bucket compared to what this country needs. It means next to nothing," said Raul Pomares, a 56-year-old gardener waiting for a taxi in the capital.

From Barron's • Mar. 30, 2026

Mawuli came in with the bucket wafting steam and the pungent scent of neem as Klenam returned with the blanket.

From "Flying Through Water" by Mamle Wolo