bucket

Example Sentences

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But is that something on your bucket list?

From Los Angeles Times • May 28, 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

The race features showroom-style cars taking on the famous 15.8-mile circuit in the Eifel mountains in Germany and the 28-year-old had said it had "been on my bucket list for a long time".

From BBC • May 17, 2026

For a bucket of gravel it’s tedious, for minerals it’s difficult, and for living organisms it’s surely impossible.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 15, 2026

If only I had set a bucket of dirt by my bed.

From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff