bucket
Example Sentences
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The crew used construction equipment to move four or five “buckets” worth of fire debris onto the neighboring property.
From Los Angeles Times
Members of the Sunrise Church in Rialto, who had shown up to lend a hand, were carrying out bucket after bucket.
From Los Angeles Times
The sap-syrup yield has never changed: one bucket of syrup from every 40 buckets of sap, making even the most modern, mechanized forms of syrup production very labor intensive.
Those delights can be as simple as looking up eco-friendly homemade shampoo formulas on Instagram or crushing a bucket of berries for seed collection to help restore native plants.
From Los Angeles Times
“It’s a black box in the beginning with the construction-in-progress bucket and then once the project is complete, it’s a black box in the back end,” Carnes said.
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