How To Use Bucket In A Sentence
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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?
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The old man fell against the bucket.
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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.
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Thus, transitive verbs in idiomatic expressions frequently will not passivize (the cowboy kicked the bucket, but not * the bucket was kicked by the cowboy).
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He let down a bucket into the well to draw water.
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We're goin' to need TP, baby wipes, plastic bags, battery powered lanterns, and buckets of batteries.
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Even multimillionaires don't like getting blood all over their soft, beige leather bucket seats.
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Amy went behind the screen at the sink and brought out a bucket and a floorcloth.
THE WHITE DOVE
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We walked along the beach collecting small crabs in a bucket.
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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.
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So went you go to work on the iron do you remove you head out of your 4th point of contact, to place your brain bucket on?
Think Progress » WellPoint Failed To Deliver Tens Of Millions Of Dollars It Promised To Help Uninsured Americans
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Purple and green dinosaur inflatable float with green vinyl seat bucket and yellow inflatable adjustable sunshade.
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The cleaner put down his mop and bucket and sat down.
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These include some very sensible measures such as to shower rather than bathe and to use buckets rather than hosepipes when washing cars.
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The use of the bucket and telpher also eliminated most of the objectionable noise incident to the transfer of spoil from tunnel cars to ordinary wagons at the shaft sites.
Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers, Vol. LXVIII, Sept. 1910 The New York Tunnel Extension of the Pennsylvania Railroad. The Cross-Town Tunnels. Paper No. 1158
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Three parts" means three-quarters of a pint, and "skilly" is a fluid concoction of three quarts of oatmeal stirred into three buckets and a half of hot water.
The People of the Abyss
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There was abundant advice offered by experts Wednesday on what to do when it rains by the bucketful, with all agreeing that seeking a dry place was the best course of action.
D.C. region braces for deluge
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After a while the bucket dips down twenty feet into the vat for oil.
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But high command has yet again told them to leave the Bolly in the ice bucket, not least because it would look terrible to be seen quaffing champers when the chancellor will soon unveil the severest squeeze on public spending in decades.
The Tories are still struggling to come to terms with the new order
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Rory gets buckets of chocolate ice cream, wallows, let's her mom comfort her, cries.
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That's as may be, " Hynds said, -but Mr. Wallace's car is a K-reg Ford rustbucket.
Resurrection Men
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He had almost finished this particular cow and the bucket was full almost to the brim, in fact some of the deep froth (the sign of a good milker) was almost but not quite spilling over.
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When she was gone—on the way out, she said, "G'nighty"—I pulled my toothbrush and toothpaste from my own bucket.
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Stuff the bottom of the sap bucket, if necessary, with packing peanuts, moss, a ball of newspaper or other lightweight material.
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A dragline - one of four - bit into the earth with a bucket the size of a two-car garage.
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You can deodorise your refrigerator, garbage bin and compost bucket by washing them out with a litre of water, to which has been added one teaspoon of lemon juice.
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At the end he upturns the bucket and a flurry of feathers rises and falls over the stage like a stream of tears.
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Malemute, nor Hudson Bay; he looked like all of them and he didn't look like any of them; and on top of it all he had some of the white man's dog in him, for on one side, in the thick of the mixed yellow - brown-red-and-dirty-white that was his prevailing colour, there was a spot of coal-black as big as a water-bucket.
That Spot
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You are my friend and I love you man but winning 1 game out of the last 6 by only a last second bucket is nothing to bragg about.
Missouri just spanked the Ks. basketball team last night. Would it be polite to rub it in to a fellow gun nut blogger.
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Water saving tips include washing the car with a bucket instead of a hose, ensuring washing machines and dishwashers have a full load, and turning off the tap while brushing teeth.
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Water pours into the top bucket at a steady rate and gives the system energy while water leaks out of each bucket at a steady rate and removes energy from the system.
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The idea was like a bucket of cold water emptied over her head.
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I put some plastic buckets on the floor to catch the drips.
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She finished pouring the goat's milk into the containers, rinsed out the bucket and stored the milk into the refrigerator.
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It wasn't too much later that I found myself working as a roofer in Aspen, Colorado, carrying buckets of hot tar up a ladder.
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As the rain bucketed down, driven horizontally by a southeast gale, he decided the walk would go ahead.
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Conjure up a bucket-load of goals?
The Sun
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The wheel has 60 buckets each which can hold 200 lb water.
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Always get the oil impregnant when needed, make sure always close the oil bucket when finish using it, and store it safely.
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He caught a bee, sang, and pecked at the water bucket.
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He would sometimes suffer from writer 's cramp, which he would treat with a bucket of ice or bag of frozen peas on his wrist.
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On top there was the firemen, and what we called the hoist engineer (he run the bucket, the scooping bucket up and down, you know, in the mine), and a blacksmith, and a blacksmith's helper.
Oral History Interview with Dock E. Hall, January 7, 1976. Interview H-0271. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
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Basically, when you put salt into a bucket of water and add a piece of meat ... chicken for example, a scientific process called osmosis begins to take effect.
Corn Nation
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Just get your wife to stand at one end of the room with a bucket of sand.
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Or just me bringing my night bucket into his cabin.
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Just hook the bucket onto the rope and lower it down.
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The bucket had been stuck on the animal's snout, hanging like a feedbag, preventing it from eating or drinking.
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He insists it was an "abstemious" occasion, but warm beer was put in a bucket of ice and then Dr Calder knocked the bucket and one of the corks shot out and hit him in the eye, blinding it.
Kiwiblog
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The fire occurred at approx. 2 o'clock, when a spark from a fire disposing of waste materials ignited a number of buckets containing paint thinner.
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Fig. 6.8 shows how increased bucket size delays the onset of synonym occurrence in a well randomized file.
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Get cleaning bucket and powder and disinfectant from the broom cupboard.
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Sure enough, between the amazing Sparco leather bucket seats, beside the green starter button, is a metal badge bearing the model's serial number.
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| Private Reply bubba! what you doin! ya gotta keep the tortillas and bread separated off in a bucket of water to mush up for the chickens and turkey's breakfast and the other slops is for the pigs. wendy devlin
Seeking the Real Mexico
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Facer has fainted; this bucket of water should fetch him round.
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In my view, the arrival of a batman with a bucket of water is often inimical to romance.
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Water saving tips include washing the car with a bucket instead of a hose, ensuring washing machines and dishwashers have a full load, and turning off the tap while brushing teeth.
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He said: 'I picked up a rather large bucket of coal and carried it around for my mum.
The Sun
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They sometimes afflicted people with fits or staggers or palsies for transgressions such as emptying a bucket of foul water in the wrong place.
Wildfire
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Although it did seem problematic when he tried to get his face into the bucket his food was poured into.
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Soak the corn, leaving the husk on, in a bucket of water.
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She leads me into Chinese sweet shops where, alongside usual offerings of chocolates and toffees, there are buckets of candied dried shrimps and sugared squid.
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These are the colours of lines on Beck's map and also sometimes of station trims and new station bucket seats.
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The devices are shaped like classic charity donation buckets and can accept coins and notes as well as a 2 contactless card donation.
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Chopping his way up the final snow slope, Phil scooped out bucketlike footholds and planted a rope anchor that could serve as a hand line.
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Trent rode in first gear, headlight tunnelling into the forest gloom through which the rain bucketed.
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They're certainly a step on from his previous good wheeze, performing shows with a bucket on his head.
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Workers in bright-yellow hard hats are beavering away, moving bucketloads of stones in wheelbarrows and trying to clear a pile of rubble with a digger.
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Armed with a bucket and a mop, I started washing the floor.
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Other attachments may include grading buckets, hydraulic breakers, plate compactors, augers, or rippers.
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You can't sell pink bucketed chicken that's bad for your health to raise money to help breast cancer.
Are Charities Doing Enough To Fight Breast Cancer?
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And the cricket world, with its benefit years, charity quizzes and galas, is quite good at rattling buckets.
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Seen nearer at hand, the dun-coloured desert resolved itself into uncountable pimpling clay and mud-heaps, of divers shade and varying sizes: some consisted of but a few bucketfuls of mullock, others were taller than the tallest man.
Australia Felix
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An unearthly silence brooded in the cabin, broken only by Bishop filling a basin from the water-bucket, and by Corliss seeking out his smallest and daintiest house-moccasins and his warmest socks.
CHAPTER 20
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How many directors dare tell any diva that the first thing they want her to do, as she makes her grand entrance, is dip her head in a bucket and throw back her hair, spraying an arc of water across the stage?
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I found it made me incredibly thirsty and ended up drinking buckets of water.
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The ice bucket challenge was one of the most successful charity campaigns in history.
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Sections of bamboo or plastic buckets are used to carry water from nearby streams for cooking and washing.
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Then the bow "bucketed" and sent a shower of icy spray over the backs of the two after oarsmen.
The Long Trick
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Further into Chinatown there are more traditional market-type shops, including fishmongers with plastic buckets of eels, poulterers with flattened ducks and grocers with rambutans, lychees and other tropical Asian fruits.
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Then you transfer the wort to a glass carboy, preferably, although you can use a plastic bucket with a well fitting lid (this is a bad idea but some people do brew this way) and you pitch the yeast.
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I grabbed another carton and the soap bucket the teachers use to clean the board with.
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A squeeze bottle of water and a bucket, obviously for waste elimination, were nearby, and there was a thick pad of foam insulation for him to lay on.
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He dipped the brush into the paint bucket.
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By adopting the fair queuing instead of traditional FCFS service discipline, the router is able to isolate and protect leaky-bucket controlled network connections.
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Clean rocks, plastic plants, etc in a bucket of warm water with a cupful of household bleach.
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These days the bucket list is not just for the dying.
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This year's object of desire is a foot-long black leather carpet bag with worked wooden handles or a hand-held bucket bag with burnished bronze studs.
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Just get your wife to stand at one end of the room with a bucket of sand.
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He treats us to a long discourse on "banded mail", the full-faced bucket helms are probably fifty years too hi-tech, the use of a barrier in tournament is a tad precocious.
Zornhau: Past Lives: Ronald Welch's "Knight Crusader"
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The bonuses are a drop in the bucket, but the bucket is as big as the country and it will never be filled.
The rich are different from you and me...
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Invariably, the other goats who want to get back to the grain bucket try to storm their way in.
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Tom appeared on the sidewalk with a bucket of whitewash and a long - handled brush.
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I took my two-year old nephew down to the beach with his bucket and spade.
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Anders caught a bucketful of salmon, and I caught a chill in the salt spray.
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And they both just stood here with their mouths agape and wondering what had made the bucket spin like that.
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A strategic bucket was stopping the drips of water plopping on their heads.
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He squeezed under the bucket and began to brush the dirt away.
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A metal bucket fell from the sky, braining the nearest bug.
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And the holiday isn't any old holiday like going on camping and having to poo in a bucket, it's a six star pamper from dawn till dusk where the hardest thing they have to do all day is remember to put some suncream on?
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Round the pavilion ran a channel of water, turning a Persian wheel317 whose buckets 318 were silvern covered with brocade.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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You see paint indicate on the bucket 10% - rate of 20% add water, you attribute inurbane demand captious .
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We kept a half dozen eggs and a stick of butter cool along with some tomatoes and cukes in a bucket lowered on a rope into the well.
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She was in her dressing sack when he called. There was a bucket of champagne on the dresser. The room was rather dark and her voice was lovely.
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But before she could finish her sentence, she kecked into a white plastic bucket behind the contestants’ table.
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He filled the bucket with water.
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The moon bucket is not going to get much fuller until we get clear direction from a very young queen ant.
A Constellation Alternative you Might Never have Seen - NASA Watch
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Much wisecracking, little introspection, in other words, as an officer who has used his brains and not the rulebook to solve military situations gets sent to the arse end of nowhere to serve with a crew of misfits on an old rustbucket, wherein he is reunited with an old sidekick.
Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror: Starship Mutiny - Mike Resnick
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Bruce wrote and sang all of Cream's toughest material - White Room, Sunshine Of Your Love - with a voice as angelically strung-out as Jeff Buckley and as gutbucket dirty as a 100 year-old-blues preacher.
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She sat on an overturned twenty-liter bucket (her clothes were too filthy to sit on anything else) and munched a hero sandwich with reflective enjoyment.
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But it's the gutbucket grooves supplied by Rochfords drums and bassist Tom Herbert that really get you in the chest, going like the clappers on ‘Your Eyes The Sea’ while the horns give it both barrels.
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After filling the drinking water, I had to wash utensils, wash two buckets of clothes, sweep and mop the entire house.
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Her owner rushed to bring her a bucket of oats before she should become entangled in the fence once again.
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He dropped each one into the bucket, and his mother pushed them under with a forked stick.
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Abasio found Bear with his nose in a bucket set beneath a dripping crevice in the moss-grown wall.
A PLAGUE OF ANGELS
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Besides a Frisbee, the novelties they offered her included plastic rings, a shoe, a bucket, and a tin can.
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She upended the bucket.
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By then the house was on its last legs, with buckets collecting the rain that poured through the roof.
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Or just me bringing my night bucket into his cabin.
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Volunteers dump out bucket traps and sift the lepidopteran from the many other kinds of bugs.
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Cheap plastic bowls and buckets flood the market.
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And then the universe dumped a cold bucket of reality on me with the horrifying thought of my kids living alone with my still-alcoholic-ex-husband.
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The municipality has asked us to water gardens and wash cars with buckets rather than hoses.
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One of Bucket's favorite Taglian lieutenants, stuck with the name Lhopal Pete to distinguish him from a sergeant everybody called Khusavir Pete (both "Petes" deriving from the center syllable of an eleventeen-syllable Gunni godname), came to tell his leader he would need to bring up a lot more water if the men were going to take care of all the cleanup I wanted them to do while I explored beyond the Shadowgate.
She Is The Darkness
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Fill the bucket with water.
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His sarcastic comment brought her out of her reverie like a bucket of cold water.
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No flowers, no marble vases, just empty plastic buckets and washing-up bowls.
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I bet you could get a bucket of builders’ sand and mix it with oil to get the same effect.
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This thing fits in so well with the Goner aesthetic you'd have thunk that Eric himself played in the band - it's rollicking, R & B-driven gutbucket rock and roll, perfect for a Saturday night beer stomp where only 40 oz. specials are served.
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It was just adapted for the removal of trees by attaching the bucket to the rear.
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I wanted gutbucket white and black, but I didn't want country, as such, because the Grand Ole Opry was doing great.
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On the basis of studies on aeration tract bucket flow energy dissipation in lower weir on soft foundation, a new type of energy dissipater was put forward.
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A rotary mechanism for multi-angle skip bucket of dump truck is designed. Goods is lifted and dumped by hydraulic system in the dump track.
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Clean rocks, plastic plants, etc in a bucket of warm water with a cupful of household bleach.
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A proper mixing paddle mixes in the corners of a bucket and doesn't blend air into the mixture.
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The ice bucket challenge was one of the most successful charity campaigns in history.
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The camp is the Stewart Granger Memorial Collection of 1940s safari tents, with no running water or electricity but with four-poster beds and mosquito nets and cambric sheets and bucket showers and paraffin lamps and butlers.
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Back to bucket carrying on the course - people are still not obeying a rule which applies to golfers carrying their golf bags.
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Yes, I admit it I'm the one who put the blue crayons in the red crayon bucket!
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Maybe they should employ shaming stewards holding buckets.
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A bedpan, a urinal, a washtub, a bucket, a table, a bed, the chair by the window… everything was crammed into that small space.
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The old car bucketed along at about thirty.
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This is a drop in the proverbial bucket compared with all there is to know about linebreeding but it is more than enough to do some serious damage.
Thoroughbred News | BloodHorse.com
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Two struggling teams; we should have been in a dogfight from the first bucket.
USATODAY.com
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I can remember hearing about the time when they went for their training and had to be timed running to a tap to fill the buckets, then running back again as fast as possible.
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But since his own daughter's death, he has dredged bucketloads of remorse from the depths of his own soul, and no longer sees the world in black and white terms.
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Even cooler is the frequency chart of words-per-day in 500-word buckets:
NaNoWrapUp 2009
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Guests were able to help themselves to platters of shellfish while waiters proffered metal buckets full of ribs.
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Off the room was a bathroom with a bucket, a shower tap and a cement floor.
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He has been afloat for three days at a stretch, unable to land safely on any of those rocky islands, trapped on the boat, using a bucket for his latrine, running short of gas, putting life jackets on the carboys of drinking water in anticipation of shipwreck, and then finally limping back to Bahia without having captured a single chuckwalla—which for him represents the penultimate indignity.
The Song of The Dodo
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I now use a small plastic bucket to keep the worms and feed them on bread and milk.
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Finally, the teacher took a bucket and made a sand castle on top.
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Any hotel in the city limits must have a water bucket and a hitching post in front of the building.
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He watched quietly as I efficiently untacked each horse, put groomed them, put them in their stalls and filled their water buckets.
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She filled the bucket with fresh water.
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A cooper is a tradesman who makes wooden vessels such as barrels, buckets and tubs.
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Harriet stood there in breeches and waxed jacket, holding a rope halter and a plastic bucket.
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You can give a bottle on its own, or expand the gift with a set of double old-fashioned glasses or an ice bucket—not quite pourable, but part of the process.
In the Mood for Stuff You Can Burn, Eat or Read
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Soak a medium-sized clean rag in the bucket of hot water and pine cleaner, wring it out, and wash the bathroom floor until it is completely clean, rinsing and wringing out the rag as necessary.
Parent in Control
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An unearthly silence brooded in the cabin, broken only by Bishop filling a basin from the water-bucket, and by Corliss seeking out his smallest and daintiest house-moccasins and his warmest socks.
CHAPTER 20
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An attachable implement such as a loader bucket is attached to the actuator.
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Don't think you can get away with some nasty imitation by hiding the label in that bucket!
ULTIMATE PRIZES
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During the day, I'd perch on a knobby redwood buff and toss pieces of bark into a bucket.
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From floppy '70s-style straw hats to a crushable bucket style to a visor you can truly obsess over, these hats aren't just good-looking — they're good for you, too.
Refinery29.com: 15 Summer Sun Hats For Snagging Some Shade
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But if you don't drill drain holes in the bottoms of these containers, you could use the cauldron and buckets as cachepots (French for ‘hide pot’) to hold plants already potted in well-draining containers.
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Doesn't it make you angry that the banks have been allowed to ride roughshod over our economy, and are still handing out bonuses by the bucket-load?
Bankers' bonuses: Blind eye to blind rage | Editorial
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The crane lifted a large bottom-dump concrete bucket filled with granular infill material.
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In the interior , less is more - 2 bucket seats, steering wheel, gear shifter and a control unit, " Paulin continues.
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For Ben the Bucket, the Dale's demon gardener, the summer has been both a triumph and a tragedy.
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Well I am exhausted and parts of me really hurt and I have to have some strange lady bathe me out of a bucket.
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I know a LOT of people who are still using photobucket (especially for forums). reply rainier seidel
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What's this horrible gunge in the bottom of the bucket?
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Turning the pump handle was much easier and more efficient but still they had to carry buckets.
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Cheap plastic bowls and buckets flood the market.
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He still dumps the milk in buckets and carries the buckets to the milk tank.
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If you have an old rust bucket, you may want a dependable car.
Christianity Today
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And you've never lived until you have seen a bucktoothed Tom Hanks do a country two-step to Reba McEntyre singing "My Bucket's Got a Hole In It.
Jay Weston: Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson Do... Shakespeare
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Often in the winter we would wake up to frost on our quilts and frozen buckets of water in the kitchen.
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She was a frugal woman and we only had one day at the seaside and buckets and spades would be catchpennies, so she bought us a milk can and wooden spoons.
The Second Coming
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He had acquired the agility of a cliff-dweller from scaling the embankment by means of the "toe-holts"; yet, at that, it was no easy matter to transport a bucket of water without spilling it.
The Dude Wrangler
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Some Arab horsemen from behind the Turks galloped towards us, bucketing unhandily across the irrigation ditches.
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It just exists to keep guitar sales up and basements full of scabby punks pissing their days away into a bucket marked ‘excess’.
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We have time, buckets of the stuff.
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For example, the crew would run from place to place to tire out the minder, and then serve him buckets of tea to distract him so that a secondary film crew could be free to film unsupervised.
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Once she was sure the rope was secure she lowered the bucket into the deep bowels of the well.
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Peter has fainted;this bucket of water should fetch him round.
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At intervals of four to six weeks the liquid that collects in the base of the composter is pumped into a bucket.
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Vermicompost (worm compost, vermicast, worm castings) compost fertilizer - stored in a bucket
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F was given some frogspawn to care for from school just before Easter, and the tadpoles graduated from the small plastic container they arrived in, to a bucket in his room.
Tadpoles
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Smaller popcorn buckets and drink cups should also be made available, the nutrition watchdog said.
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It has a small bucket on the front and hoe on the back, with an arm that lays over to drop the center of gravity for travel.
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My father with his years at sea would have called her a rust bucket.
The Tribes Triumphant
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During the day, I'd perch on a knobby redwood buff and toss pieces of bark into a bucket.
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Brewing Clean the white plastic brewing bucket with the sterilising fluid and rinse it thoroughly with cold water.
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There were so many people jostling they knocked over one of my buckets and all six of my yogurt pots.
The Sun
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The devices are shaped like classic charity donation buckets and can accept coins and notes as well as a 2 contactless card donation.
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There are relatively few amusement arcades but plenty of shops selling brightly-coloured buckets, spades, inflatable dinghies and beach balls, not to mention lettered rock and ices.
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Keep a bucket of soapy water and a second sponge to clean the exterior window sill.
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It turned to a bucket of rust.
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However, if you wanted to stock up on discounted Pyrex or Tupperware dishes, plastic basins or buckets and scented and non-scented candles, it offered good value.
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It allows you to hose off the horse coated in mud, top off water buckets that are crusting with ice, and clean tack and other items without your hands turning blue.
