[
US
/ˈbəkət, ˈbəkɪt/
]
[ UK /bˈʌkɪt/ ]
[ UK /bˈʌkɪt/ ]
NOUN
- a roughly cylindrical vessel that is open at the top
- the quantity contained in a bucket
VERB
- put into a bucket
- carry in a bucket
How To Use bucket In A Sentence
- This green bucket lark is a joke, and I am sure that every large family in Bolton will agree when I say that I can fill this in a couple of days, and you think that I can go a fortnight between collections?
- The old man fell against the bucket.
- We also went to the DIY store for garden stuff and for a big bucket of white emulsion paint to brighten up the walls in Graham's workshop.
- Thus, transitive verbs in idiomatic expressions frequently will not passivize (the cowboy kicked the bucket, but not * the bucket was kicked by the cowboy). VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol III No 4
- He let down a bucket into the well to draw water.
- We're goin' to need TP, baby wipes, plastic bags, battery powered lanterns, and buckets of batteries.
- Even multimillionaires don't like getting blood all over their soft, beige leather bucket seats.
- Amy went behind the screen at the sink and brought out a bucket and a floorcloth. THE WHITE DOVE
- We walked along the beach collecting small crabs in a bucket.
- This may be because when he started mixing up a bucket in the new kitchen, billows of dust began puffing under the doors onto my new upstairs carpets.