How do you use the word "bucket" in a sentence?

Here are real-life examples of using "bucket": Always keep a bucket of water handy, in case of fire. Fill the bucket with water.

Bucket Meaning

/ˈbʌkɪt/

Definition, CEFR level A2, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.

Definition

nounA container made of rigid material, often with a handle, used to carry liquids or small items.

nounThe amount held in this container.

Sentence Examples

Always keep a bucket of water handy, in case of fire.

Fill the bucket with water.

Water had spilled out of the bucket onto the floor.

CEFR Practice Quiz

He filled the plastic ____ with water and soap, then scrubbed the muddy car tires clean.

CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)

The young children used a ____ to carry water from the sea to the sand.

Word Origin & History

Etymology tree Middle English boket English bucket From Middle English buket, boket, partly from Old English bucc ("bucket, pitcher"; mod. dialectal buck), equivalent to bouk + -et; and partly from Anglo-Norman buket, buquet (“tub; pail”) (compare Norman boutchet, Norman bouquet), diminutive of Old French buc (“abdomen; object with a cavity”), from Vulgar Latin *būcus (compare Occitan and Catalan buc, Italian buco, buca (“hole, gap”)), from Frankish *būk (“belly, stomach”). Both the Old English and Frankish terms derive from Proto-Germanic *būkaz (“belly, stomach”). More at bouk.

Literary Quotations & Historical Citations

"The crab was cool and very light. But the water was thick with sand, and so, scrambling down, Jacob was about to jump, holding his bucket in front of him, when he saw, stretched entirely rigid, side by side, their faces very red, an enormous man and woman." — 1922, Virginia Woolf, chapter 1, in Jacob's Room:

"[Markieff] Morris isn’t quite the post-up threat that [Enes] Kanter is, and he can play both the 4 spot and 5 spot instead of just center, like Kanter. He is capable of playing a similar way, backing defenders down in the post. He prefers getting his buckets there with a bevy of fade-aways and jumpers. He’s a heat checker. And he can get hot on the block." — 2019 February 25, Brett Dawson, Fred Katz, “How power forward Markieff Morris might fit in with the Thunder”, in The Athletic:

"Avoid bulky styles such as duffle sacks, buckets, doctors' satchels, and hobos." — 1989, Susan Ludwig, Janice Steinberg, Petite Style, page 46:

"These candidates are then bucketed into a discretized version of the space of all possible lines." — 2002, Nicolò Cesa-Bianchi, Masayuki Numao, Rüdiger Reischuk, Algorithmic Learning Theory: 13th International Conference, page 352:

"Thus, sorting each bucket takes O(1) times. The total effort of bucketing, sorting buckets, and concotenating^([sic]) the sorted buckets together is O(n)." — 2008, Hari Mohan Pandey, Design Analysis and Algorithm, page 136:

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