How do you use Bucket in a sentence? See 10+ example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, including synonyms like pail or transport, plus the exact meaning.
Bucket in a sentence
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Bucket meaning
- A container made of rigid material, often with a handle, used to carry liquids or small items.
- The amount held in this container.
- A large amount of liquid.
Synonyms of Bucket
Using Bucket
- The main meaning on this page is: A container made of rigid material, often with a handle, used to carry liquids or small items. | The amount held in this container. | A large amount of liquid.
- Useful related words include: pail, transport, lay, position.
- In the example corpus, bucket often appears in combinations such as: bucket list, the bucket, bucket of.
Context around Bucket
- Average sentence length in these examples: 26.5 words
- Position in the sentence: 4 start, 15 middle, 1 end
- Sentence types: 19 statements, 1 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Bucket
- In this selection, "bucket" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 26.5 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, gallon, effortless, investment, list, sort and initially stand out and add context to how "bucket" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a builders bucket so really and after effortless bucket. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "bucket" sits close to words such as amber, bernie and elimination, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with bucket
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
That’s a drop in the bucket — a bucket the size of Texas, perhaps. (14 words)
Most of my money goes into the income investment bucket, and the backbone of that bucket is Enterprise Products Partners (). (20 words)
Or is it kind of just fill up one bucket, then go to the next bucket, you know, more sequentially? (20 words)
But this video captures an amazing bunch of people who took the time out of their busy lives to track down a bear, that only looks like a cub, with a bucket described as an “airbag bucket” tightly sealed and very much stuck on his head. (46 words)
The first instance of "bucket list" as a term to describe things to do before you, well, kick the bucket was in the lesser-known book Unfair & Unbalanced: The Lunatic Magniloquence of Henry E. Panky by Patrick M. Carlisle. (39 words)
This is why water spurting from a hole in a bucket initially exits the bucket in a direction at right angles to the surface of the bucket in which the hole is located. (33 words)
Or is it kind of just fill up one bucket, then go to the next bucket, you know, more sequentially? (20 words)
Example sentences (20)
This is why water spurting from a hole in a bucket initially exits the bucket in a direction at right angles to the surface of the bucket in which the hole is located.
Most of my money goes into the income investment bucket, and the backbone of that bucket is Enterprise Products Partners ().
That’s a drop in the bucket — a bucket the size of Texas, perhaps.
And of course the Siegel/Shuster Superman is on my bucket list, as it should be on every self-respecting comics fans bucket list.
Kids could get a meal and then use the Halloween-themed bucket their Happy Meal came in as a bucket for candy from trick-or-treating.
Or is it kind of just fill up one bucket, then go to the next bucket, you know, more sequentially?
The bucket that attracts the most meerkat attention is tipped to be the victor, and so far, the England bucket has been the outright favourite.
The first instance of "bucket list" as a term to describe things to do before you, well, kick the bucket was in the lesser-known book Unfair & Unbalanced: The Lunatic Magniloquence of Henry E. Panky by Patrick M. Carlisle.
Vivienne said: "It's a very high tech, top of the range bucket - it's a builders bucket so really sturdy.
At some point, that last Big Mac and bucket of KFC is going to be one Big Mac/Bucket too many and kerplunk!.
One board had a five gallon bucket of mammal blood, another had a five gallon bucket of fish blood, and the third had seawater.
Reading it helped me understand something about myself: My bucket list is not places to go nor things to see — my bucket list is books.
But currently, we’re seeing about 80% of our patients in the Medicare bucket, about 12% in the commercial lives bucket and then of the remainder in Medicaid and others.
But this video captures an amazing bunch of people who took the time out of their busy lives to track down a bear, that only looks like a cub, with a bucket described as an “airbag bucket” tightly sealed and very much stuck on his head.
Mayor Sanders requested permission from the council to repair or replace, if necessary, the bucket on the city’s bucket truck.
The top bucket will be filled with water and will be filtered through the tulip candle filter into the lower bucket.
His unstoppable nature was on full display throughout as he rose over defenders from beyond the arc and in the mid-range to score effortless bucket after effortless bucket.
If we can get a few more people to step forward and help us fill the bucket and a few of the bucket kickers to reconsider their course, we can reshape the future.
A library assistant was going round the shelves carrying an enormous bucket, taking down books, glancing at them, restoring them to the shelves or dumping them into the bucket.
Bucket sort main Bucket sort is a divide and conquer sorting algorithm that generalizes counting sort by partitioning an array into a finite number of buckets.
Common combinations with bucket
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- bucket list 46×
- the bucket 35×
- bucket of 26×
- bucket in 11×
- bucket and 9×
- my bucket 8×
- in bucket 7×
- and bucket 7×
- bucket hat 7×
- your bucket 7×