bucket
noun
a deep, cylindrical vessel, usually of metal, plastic, or wood, with a flat bottom and a semicircular bail, for collecting, carrying, or holding water, sand, fruit, etc.; pail.
buckets
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pluralof bucket.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
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present tense formof bucket (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
bucketnouna deep, cylindrical vessel, usually of metal, plastic, or wood, with a flat bottom and a semicircular bail, for collecting, carrying, or holding water, sand, fruit, etc.; pail.
Example Sentences
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The 36-year-old tower crane operator in Nashville, Tenn., who works 12-hour shifts, helps lift and move rebar and buckets of concrete from a perch often hundreds of feet in the air.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 2, 2026
In an already tenuous industry marked by razor-thin margins, high rents and increasing costs for goods and labor, some of the Southland’s favorite beach bars and restaurants are dumping out buckets of water this month.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 29, 2026
Maykel Aguilar, 30, patiently filled a 200-liter tank and several buckets at a pipe connected to a spring on a street in the capital's old town.
From Barron's ● Oct. 21, 2026
He pulled out his phone and recorded himself dumping fat streams of quarters into collection buckets.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2026
By now, the roads were filled with children swinging their fathers’ meal buckets and workers returning from saloons for the night shift.
From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros
