buckets
Example Sentences
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Donations to colleges fall into two buckets: those for general use and those restricted to a specific purpose by the benefactor.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 2026
When his fresh water ran out on July 11, he collected drinking water by filling buckets with seawater and capturing the condensation beneath plastic bags he stretched over the buckets.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 28, 2026
The buckets are gathered back in the car park and the crop is carefully placed in a barrel of cool seawater to be taken for processing.
From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2026
And as predictably as the tides, a wine-dark sea of merch has risen up around the release: T-shirts, videogames, souvenir popcorn buckets.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 16, 2026
People shouted back and forth, opening stalls, grabbing buckets and ropes.
From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff
