Examples of bucketful in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Firefighters lowered a metal tube around Leake to prevent the walls of the ditch from collapsing around him further, then took turns rappelling into the hole to remove dirt by the bucketful. — John Tuohy, The Indianapolis Star, 20 July 2021 His latest bucketful goes a long way toward clarifying the politics of our time. — Daniel Henninger, WSJ, 7 July 2021 What's left to say about someone who has a Nobel Prize, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, an Oscar, a Golden Globe, a bucketful of Grammys and dozens of other recognitions? — Mike Buttry, Star Tribune, 21 May 2021 Before her ultrasound scan, the unsuspecting Puntung is lured into a small pen by a bucketful of diced bananas. — Henry Nicholls, Scientific American, 30 May 2012 And the sky went wan, and the wind came cold, And the sun rose dripping, a bucketful of gold. — Elizabeth Lund, The Christian Science Monitor, 29 Apr. 2020 Encouragement by the bucketful is in constant supply. — al, 24 Apr. 2020 The process of breaking down plant matter reduces its volume, so a cubic yard of leaves may yield only a bucketful of compost. — Beth Botts, chicagotribune.com, 2 Oct. 2019 Imagine the designer who plunges his hand into a bucketful of sapphires to emerge with that one perfect specimen—that special colored stone that caught his or her eye. — Stellene Volandes, Town & Country, 10 Sep. 2019 See More

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