bucket about
Britishverb
Example Sentences
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Fill a 5-gallon bucket about halfway with soil from the garden where you intend to plant and then use your hands to thoroughly mix in your packet or packets of seeds.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 12, 2023
WALLACE: In this bucket about fitness to be president, there's been a lot of developments over the last 10 days since the last debate.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 2016
To make a drip bucket, drill a 3/16-inch hole through the side of a 4-to-6-gallon plastic bucket about 1/4-inch up from the bottom, or in the bottom at the edge.
From Gardening Without Irrigation: or without much, anyway by Solomon, Steve
When the boys splashed the bucket about, the water sent up a pure, cool breath.
From One of Ours by Cather, Willa Sibert
A wee drop in a bucket, about two hoops up.
From Six Years in the Prisons of England by Henderson, Frank
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