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    bucket example sentences

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    1. A dingy back room in Dublin was a bucket of cold water for most people and a cloak of invisibility for the rest


    2. A little-used mop stands in a bucket of dirty water in the center of the floor as if it were long ago forgotten there


    3. ’ Molly responded, filling the bucket with fresh, hot, soapy water


    4. I remembered one of the guards saying that there was a bucket


    5. By the far wall of the cell I found a dry plastic bucket with a broken handle


    6. The bucket, for instance, felt clean and dry, but bathed in the aromas of moulded plastic and disinfectant I could sense a mixture of bleach and the faint tang of stale urine


    7. My still damp jeans and shorts lay at the foot of the bed and I put them in the bucket in a vain attempt to confine their ill-humours


    8. By edging my way along the mattress I could position myself opposite where I thought the bucket should be and then I shuffled forward onto the rough concrete floor


    9. Another shuffle forward and I felt the rim of the bucket against my thigh


    10. As I relieved myself the sound of liquid hitting the sides of the bucket burst the bubble of silence in my cell

    11. I held the bucket in front of my exposed manhood


    12. When he remembered how little inertial negation that bucket had, it all suddenly made sense


    13. The bottle spun off the tray and skittered across the floor of my cell, coming to rest against the back wall by the slops bucket


    14. I learned to control my body so that I didn’t have to use the bucket too many times, hating the crawling stink of my own detritus, and, oddly, I did not want The Kid to be offended by my bodily waste


    15. There was a stove full of hot coals and a bucket of


    16. He put a bucket


    17. The soldier took handfuls of water from the bucket and washed his face


    18. flow that’s still creating from a mixed bucket


    19. where the bucket stands


    20. The biggest trick was the bucket of water

    21. “Over here Trixy, come for the bucket of water


    22. “Yeah I will get you with more than a bucket of water”


    23. Jerry came in with a bucket of water and set it down


    24. The young man slid out of the cot and went to the water and dumped the bucket on his head


    25. riddled the fire and swept ashes into a bucket,


    26. Had they looked over their shoulders they would have seen a mad gleam in his eye and a bucket of popcorn on his lap, and Archibald would have heard him chuckling quietly to himself as he came face to face with the results of his curse from all those years ago


    27. Now get out of my cabin or I'll toss a bucket of water on you!"


    28. A seat above a bucket sort of arrangement which, when the lid is put down, tips the contents into the wasteg


    29. His magic level was such that it was still easier to just plink icecubes from a bucket than conjure them into the glass


    30. I rotated the beer bottles in the ice bucket to make them equally cold

    31. ' I lunged for the ice bucket


    32. Jack filled his bucket with water from a couple of bottles of Tesco


    33. stripy, stood on the second step and placed the bucket between his


    34. into the bucket for each name that was read out aloud


    35. seven into the bucket, the high pitched snarl of a revving engine


    36. bucket tumbled down the memorial steps, Jack and Jill nursed their


    37. would have seen a mad gleam in his eye and a bucket of popcorn


    38. She knew the time was soon coming when she would have to use that bucket, even that much magic was denied her


    39. The farmers lived in small groups of stuccoed stone houses of several rooms each, with toilets that flushed with a bucket and little stone gutters that brought water from streams in the hills


    40. There’s a mop and a bucket and stuff

    41. There was an out-house instead of plumbing and a rope and bucket well next to the outdoor kitchen that was sheltered by the lean-to next to the back door


    42. Efficiently, Chrissie dug out a bucket from the cupboard and stood at the sink watching it fill with hot water


    43. She picked up the bucket and carried it towards the door


    44. ’ He said firmly, filling a bucket with hot soapy water


    45. A bucket of water sat next to the contraption to pitch hit for the lack of a plumbed water supply, but other than that slight modification, the house was now as well furnished as any in the whole state of California


    46. – perhaps armed with a bucket of ice-cold water


    47. “Put that one in the bucket


    48. I gave a sarcastic “Okay” and threw the carp in the bucket of water


    49. Harry lifted a bucket to refill the tank and it was all set to go again


    50. trouble of providing a bucket for ablutions, Jean noticed














































    1. Rain bucketed blackly


    2. There were only two houses that showed his orders on tape—the rest, apparently, got bucketed


    3. I bucketed Rocinante out of California by the shortest possible route—one I knew well from the old days of the 1930s


    1. It was still bucketing down, but fortunately the motor was situated between the front seats so I checked the fuel line – petrol O


    2. The bucketing machine let loose a fall of glass and junk in its hideous interior


    1. Stumbling with two buckets full of putrescent refuse, the boy tossed the wet feces onto the head of the ballista


    2. 'Yes, I've buckets of time


    3. Already there was a fair bit of activity in the streets – people wandering around in what she could only assume was special holiday attire for men of brightly coloured shorts and tops, some women in absurdly brief skirts, others in long muslin affairs that wouldn’t look out of place on Errd, most of them carrying bags of towels and dragging small noisy children laden with buckets and spades


    4. who carry rolls of paper, buckets and brushes


    5. It was flanked by two huge ice buckets, if indeed that's what they were


    6. As he made his way through the darkness he kicked various buckets, pots and pans that had been left strategically placed to deal with the many leaks that the roof had sprung during so many years of neglect


    7. 'You want to know what a real man is, my boy? I think he is the one who laughs when he is ready to laugh, and when he is sad, he lets it out in buckets


    8. 30 which gives us buckets of time before Katie has to be home for 10


    9. He also picked up three buckets that we used to chill beer


    10. After lunch, he led them to the tower, placed the four buckets in front of them and said, “I have been waiting for a pipe connection to repair our plumbing but it is unfortunately on back order with the manufacturer, but we still need to have this water tank

    11. the workers – precariously carrying two buckets hanging


    12. Other villagers threw buckets of water on him and the fire sizzled to a steaming halt but the screaming continued


    13. Bottles of French Cognac were poured into buckets of water to which herbs and sugar had been added to create cocktails that Nathaniel had never tasted before, but were so delicious that he knew that he would have to control his intake


    14. The project of replenishing their coffers in this manner may be compared to that of a man who had a water-pond from which a stream was continually running out, and into which no stream was continually running, but who proposed to keep it always equally full, by employing a number of people to go continually with buckets to a well at some miles distance, in order to bring water to replenish it


    15. worse than the slops buckets in the Thallia’s hold on the hottest day


    16. She passed a pit where slaves carried buckets full of red dirt up ladders


    17. As soon as Miklos came down from the mast, Nerissa had him fill more buckets


    18. Nerissa had Miklos and Eugenia run around extinguishing the fires with water from the buckets, while she and Homer pulled the oars so hard, steam rose up from their handles


    19. There was hay on the ground, water buckets, and a feeding trough—but there were about ten goats in there and, according to my mates onboard, about fifty more on the way for a customer across the sea


    20. Fysto grabbed a handful of sand from the standard firefighting buckets that dotted the deck and threw it in the port agent’s face

    21. We had an interesting time watching the helicopters fly right over our house with enormous flexible buckets full of water


    22. When Karol, Tomasz and Jan discerned what Colling and Elizabeth were doing, they joined in, and used all the buckets they could find to bring water


    23. ” She handed him the last of her Colones, they exchanged well wishes, and she limp-sloshed into town with stained clothing and shoes that more closely resembled buckets of mud


    24. He used one of those “puke” plastic buckets that hospitals give their chemo patients, (in case you needed to puke from the chemo


    25. When I enter the large room again, some of the factionless are walking out with buckets of paint and paintbrushes


    26. 7 He shall pour the water out of his buckets, and his seed shall be in many waters, and his king shall be higher than Agag, and his kingdom shall be exalted


    27. water, chasing it into corners and scraping the buckets along the


    28. buckets, metal tools for crop growing that were hanging on the


    29. seedlings with buckets from the river, harvesting fruit that was


    30. I made sure there was water in their buckets

    31. The place was a hive of scarecrow activity: some were clearing up the rubbish, others were busy hammering pieces of wood together, whilst the remainder had assembled by the Plunge Pool, where they filled wooden buckets with the murky green liquid


    32. horses’ water buckets and filled feed bins with hay and a scoop of grain for each


    33. plush col ection of couches and easy chairs, piles of books, buckets of


    34. I shot over the rise and, as the wagon burst into the clearing, I saw Rory and Lida running from the dam to the house with buckets


    35. Once the candy landed, the visitors would fill their buckets to the rim


    36. Guapo sluiced them with buckets of water and by the time they‘d been rolled down the stairs to the garage they were dry, although somewhat battered and delirious


    37. My feet were heavy, as if they were dug into two buckets of dried cement


    38. The “bathroom” consisted of two big plastic buckets, one filled with water – the “washing” facility, the other bucket was empty except for a new roll of toilet paper…this was obviously the “Loo”


    39. The last of Callucini’s men walked into the house and Alberto shouted, “Get some hosepipes and buckets guys, we have to clean that crap off the walls


    40. First came the soldiers with Blackfin and an army of servants who brought up a copper hip bath, and endless buckets of hot and cold water

    41. The banshchik, a swarthy individual whose broad, muscular shoulders could support, according to Protopopoff, fifteen fully grown men, brought several buckets of water and dashed them onto the firebricks and the heat intensified, much to Travis's alarm


    42. The man sits at a large glass table that is littered with Kentucky Fried Chicken buckets and bags, some look like they have been there for several days


    43. “It is not my habit to have buckets of water lying around the house


    44. If you’re a beer drinker, order up the buckets that give


    45. They had plenty of shovels and buckets, but Johnny had the only pick


    46. Tim and Sam filled buckets with the dirt and David hauled them off and dumped them


    47. The clanging buckets drowned her voice out


    48. ” Henry forged through the scattering of buckets, nudging them angrily as he went


    49. Two sets of step ladders, buckets and rollers lay on a paint splattered drop cloth


    50. While most of her neighbors that were within sight hesitated or seemed incredulous, Nancy knew immediately what was going to happen and hurried inside her house, pouring the water from her buckets in a clay basin before throwing a cape over her shoulders and going out again














































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    Synonyms for "bucket"

    bucket pail bucketful measure bushel load basket

    "bucket" definitions

    a roughly cylindrical vessel that is open at the top


    the quantity contained in a bucket


    put into a bucket


    carry in a bucket