bucket

Example Sentences

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It was like a fire bucket brigade, with workers passing the melons down the line to be placed into large boxes on a flatbed, a process the owner called “pitching.”

From Los Angeles Times

Siegrist went digging in a bucket full of coins and junk for a key chain.

From The Wall Street Journal

But everything being done adds up to a drop in the bucket for a city with some 1,000 supermarkets in total.

From Barron's

The Titans were family, and to this day he remembers that Wilhite’s father attended practice just about every day, sitting in the front row, wearing that trademark white bucket hat.

From Los Angeles Times

Consider a person who retires with only tax-deferred accounts: They lose strategic flexibility compared with those who diversify across taxable, tax-deferred, and tax-free buckets, which really allows us to optimize that lifetime tax rate.

From Barron's