bucket
Example Sentences
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Walking down Sixth Avenue in New York recently, I was mesmerized by a Salvation Army dude with his red donation bucket dancing to Mariah Carey’s “All I Want for Christmas Is You.”
It’s not the commercial or banking bucket in which an activity is placed that makes it risky; it’s the activity and the way in which it is conducted.
From Barron's
"When I drove this morning, I could see that many, many people were trying with buckets to remove some of the water."
From BBC
It was a bucket list item that I thought I would never achieve.
By the time USC scored another bucket, the Connecticut lead had ballooned to 19.
From Los Angeles Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.