bucket
Example Sentences
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She took her fishing rod back to the rocks, and when she caught a fish, she dropped it in a bucket.
From Literature
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With more than nine in 10 people in the region living below the poverty line in 2022, according to the National Bureau of Statistics, the effort may be only a drop in the bucket.
From Barron's
She couldn’t raise enough to buy a 44-pound bucket of rice.
"If they fail - wittingly or unwittingly - then the situation will remain in the 'managed rivalry' bucket," he says.
From BBC
He hauls buckets of feed into the back of his ATV and unloads them in a pen crowded with cattle that outweigh him many times over.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.