Example Sentences
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After a briefing in a nearby car park, we troop down to the water's edge clutching white plastic buckets to begin the hunt.
From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2026
Clients often hear financial planners talk in terms of designating different buckets of money to organize a portfolio.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 13, 2026
“It mostly came down to using shovels and buckets and hands, things like that,” Espy said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 5, 2026
A group of volunteers passes buckets of rubble from hand to hand in long lines.
From Barron's ● Jul. 4, 2026
I hadn’t noticed all the other noise, but servants were coming and going, bringing dishes and trays and buckets and rags.
From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff
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