How to Use bucket in a Sentence

bucket

1 of 2 noun
  • We used two buckets of paint to paint the living room.
  • This is just the drop in the bucket.
    — Ramsen Shamon, MSNBC Newsweek, 20 Oct. 2025
  • And that’s just a drop in the bucket.
    — Bloomberg, Mercury News, 11 June 2026
  • One cop was even hit in the head with a bucket.
    — Leonard Greene, New York Daily News, 28 Feb. 2026
  • For us, five years is like a drop in the bucket.
    — Matt Grobar, Deadline, 7 Nov. 2025
  • The head of the line filled the buckets and passed them down the line.
    — Sean Krofssik, Hartford Courant, 7 Jan. 2024
  • Those who have seen the buckets say prices start at $7.
    — Sophia Beams, Better Homes & Gardens, 25 Feb. 2026
  • Place a heating pad in a bucket and turn it on.
    — Lee Wallender, The Spruce, 18 May 2026
  • That money is a drop in the bucket for them.
    — Jon Root Outkick, FOXNews.com, 13 June 2026
  • Pour enough water in a bucket to soak the brush.
    — Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 23 Apr. 2026
  • Place them all in a bucket of water.
    — Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 7 June 2026
  • The ash should drop to the bottom of the bucket.
    — Ashlyn Needham, Southern Living, 3 Feb. 2026
  • Tough to win without some of those free buckets.
    — Thomas Jones, Austin American Statesman, 31 Jan. 2026
  • Catch them and drop them in a bucket of soapy water.
    — Rita Perwich, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Apr. 2026
  • Next, grab your bucket and fill it with warm water.
    — Caroline Lubinsky, Martha Stewart, 8 June 2026
  • Fill a bucket with warm water and a squirt of dish soap.
    — Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 26 Sep. 2025
  • The schools traded buckets the rest of the way.
    — Brendan Connelly, Boston Herald, 24 Jan. 2026
  • Maybe a lot of this is about looking for us in the bucket.
    — Literary Hub, 12 May 2026
  • Kennedy then goes to the driveway with a net and a bucket.
    — Drew Pittock, USA Today, 28 May 2026
  • Fill a bucket full of warm water and a squirt of dish soap.
    — Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 27 Sep. 2025
  • Five-gallon buckets had been placed to catch the leaks.
    — Jesse Bedayn, Denver Post, 5 Feb. 2026
  • An income bucket of bonds and bond funds.
    — Wes Moss, Forbes.com, 12 June 2026
  • Strain out the peels and add the liquid to your mop bucket.
    — Mary Marlowe Leverette, The Spruce, 10 Feb. 2026
  • The buckets feature a snap-seal lid and a large straw.
    — Sophia Beams, Better Homes & Gardens, 25 Feb. 2026
  • Consumers buy whole bagels and small buckets of cream cheese.
    — Sarah Blaskovich, Dallas Morning News, 26 Jan. 2026
  • Keep children and pets away from the mound and bucket at all times.
    — Olivia McIntosh, Martha Stewart, 17 June 2026
  • Loose limbs are thrown into a bucket.
    — Calin Van Paris, Outside, 19 Mar. 2026
  • Pick the bucket each project belongs to.
    — Jodie Cook, Forbes.com, 11 June 2026
  • Dip the mop in a bucket of clean water to rinse the floors clean.
    — Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 28 Jan. 2026
  • Dip the mop in a bucket of clean water to rinse the floors clean.
    — Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 31 Oct. 2025

bucket

2 of 2 verb
  • Top handles are too formal, totes too casual, and buckets too trendy.
    — Olivia Morelli, Condé Nast Traveler, 6 Nov. 2025
  • Kessler’s layup is the Tigers’ only bucket in their last 10 attempts.
    — Nubyjas Wilborn | [email protected], al, 8 Feb. 2022
  • But that gorgeous swamp was bucketed out around the time of Sleep Well Beast.
    — James Robins, Vulture, 1 May 2023
  • From trendy sweatsuits to bucket hats to watches, the streetwear spectrum is deep—and everybody wants a piece.
    — Nandi Howard, Essence, 4 May 2021
  • Another way to bucket your goals is to categorize them into the sum of the parts or the parts of the sum.
    — Gregory Salsburg, Forbes, 28 Apr. 2021
  • This is on vivid display in the chart below, which takes all the simulations from our model and buckets them by popular vote outcome.
    — G. Elliott Morris, ABC News, 30 Oct. 2024
  • The Vikings identified Felton early in the process and bucketed him in the middle rounds.
    — Alec Lewis, New York Times, 26 Apr. 2025
  • As Hortiz mentioned at his pre-draft presser, fullback and tight end will be bucketed together in this offense.
    — Daniel Popper, New York Times, 22 Apr. 2026
  • For example, if classify gifts as 'needs' and new decorations as 'wants,' put most of your money in the gifts bucket and save a very small amount for new decor.
    — Emily Vanschmus, Better Homes & Gardens, 16 June 2021
  • Samsung has a sizing guide consistent with other fitness tracker rings as I was bucketed into my usual size 8.
    — Adrienne So, WIRED, 18 Aug. 2024
  • The Fever seemingly had control of the game throughout the first 10 minutes of the game, scoring at will and bucketing 26 points.
    — Indystar Sports, The Indianapolis Star, 19 July 2023
  • Six months later, the internship — some of which bore all the glamour of scrubbing bird poop and bucketing hundreds of pounds of fish as dolphin food — developed into a full-time gig as a trainer.
    — Teri Figueroa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Sep. 2025
  • Optional Recaro buckets and an active exhaust are also available for the performance-minded.
    — Josh Max, Forbes, 9 Sep. 2024
  • Meanwhile, the fashion crowd has been photographed wearing teddy jackets in every color, print, length, and shape; some even raised the stakes with teddy accessories, from bucket bags to bucket hats.
    — Georgina Kim, Glamour, 11 Nov. 2019
  • Products are bucketed into 107 categories — from clothing to footwear to household linens — and further segmented by weight.
    — Olivia Rockeman, Fortune, 30 May 2023
  • The only reason the Nittany Lions are still on the bubble is that Cam Wynter nailed two late-game miracle buckets to win back-to-back games.
    — Tanner McGrath, Chicago Tribune, 9 Mar. 2023
  • The company’s product portfolio can be broadly bucketed into three categories.
    — Stockstory Team, CNBC, 4 Feb. 2025
  • Similarly revealing is our chances created grid, bucketing the start locations of every pass that has led directly to a goalscoring opportunity for a team-mate.
    — Thom Harris, New York Times, 10 June 2026
  • Instead of streamlining, companies simply used generic headings to bucket their existing legal boilerplate.
    — Shivaram Rajgopal, Forbes.com, 23 June 2026
  • But in a storm of Harvey's sheer monstrousness – hundreds of miles across, lingering for days with bucketing rain that swallowed roads and initially kept rescue aircraft grounded – no government response could ever have been enough.
    — Author: Kevin Sullivan, Peter Holley, Alaska Dispatch News, 3 Sep. 2017
  • But in a storm of Harvey’s sheer monstrousness — hundreds of miles across, lingering for days with bucketing rain that swallowed roads and initially kept rescue aircraft grounded — no government response could ever have been enough.
    — Kevin Sullivan, Washington Post, 2 Sep. 2017
  • When Holly’s seemingly psychic abilities save her from a fatal disaster at school, her status in the community shifts from outcast to otherworldly icon — as if Carrie White had actually been crowned prom queen, and not bucketed with blood.
    — Guy Lodge, Variety, 7 Sep. 2023
  • To travelers, Arizona is known for some of the Southwest's most iconic vacation destinations—from sprawling golf and tennis facilities to innovative wellness retreats to bucket-list natural attractions.
    — Chadner Navarro, Fortune, 28 Jan. 2020
  • The data was then bucketed into six indexes—tax rates, quality of life, senior population/migration trends, quality of health care, job market, and overall value—which were weighted based on responses from a March 2025 public survey.
    — Lydia Mansel, Travel + Leisure, 15 Dec. 2025

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