How to use Buckets in a sentence

Water may be raised from mines by buckets, tanks or pumps.

Wooden or steel buckets, holding from 35 to 200 gallons, are employed only for temporary or auxiliary service or for small quantities of water in shallow shafts.

Inside the barn, Carmen filled two buckets with warm water and heaved them out of the sink.

I meet his servant come to draw water for his master, and our buckets as it were grate together in the same well.

Small boys love plunging red-hot iron into buckets of water to temper them.

They have organic approved seaweed products including milled seaweed meal, and seaweed mineral lick buckets, non organic, but approved by SOPA.

The UGC has a massive car park, lots of screens, big squashy seats and buckets of popcorn.

They would have to collect the water they need in buckets or water carriers from a temporary standpipe in the street.

I found it as moving as Highland Twins and I wept buckets.

When the first hydraulic excavators appeared they were relatively puny affairs with small buckets and a short reach.

In September 1703 the inhabitants of Wolverhampton purchased a fire engine and twenty-four buckets for the water.

To protect the candle light flames from the wind, use purchased luminaries or shiny metal buckets.

Monica brings Lizzie a couple of buckets to help make the grog.

They have organic approved seaweed products including milled seaweed products including milled seaweed meal, and seaweed mineral lick buckets, non organic, but approved by SOPA.

The edge of the saucer shaped object was thick and had vanes spaced about every foot, like buckets on a turbine wheel.

In the 17th century, flood water was lifted by chain pumps with tipping buckets, powered either by waterwheels or horse whims.

Deep ruts and "cradle-holes" were worn in the ice, as on terra firma, by the passage of the sleds over the same track, and the horses invariably ate their oats out of cakes of ice hollowed out like buckets.

At night we teetered out with buckets, Rushed the water down the slide 's length In one black stain.

So some may assume such aircraft to be the tramp steamers of the skies, conjuring up a picture of old aerial rust buckets.

Along the length of the upturned hull you can see the doors where the dredging buckets would have been deployed.

Everything, that is, except for a warped imagination and buckets of dice -- but you already have those, right?

This is great for creative people who will expand the definition of basket to include galvanized buckets, baby bathtubs, toy boxes and more to hold their gifts.

He'll also love playing in his very own sand box, complete with buckets, shovels, cars and trucks.

Buckets of water outside of your house are also potential water hazards, as well as pools, creeks, ponds, etc. You should place high fences around your pool area and put self-latching locks on the gates.

Finally, you can forgo the traditional basket for a variety of other items to fill with gifts, like buckets, boxes, wagons, and more.

Old buckets can be used as plant pots or discarded household items such as an old bath can make a good container for growing vegetables as well as being a talking point.

You'll be using this sink to hand wash clothes, fill and empty buckets, and do other household chores.

For a fun and yet stylish favor, try mini silver candle buckets.

Remember to double check the rules and regulations for beach use and bring small white buckets to fill with sand for anchoring the table legs, and you'll have a picture perfect seaside celebration.

It features the characters standing with paint buckets and easels, and is etched with the show's logo.

In these cases, Royal Caribbean offers a selection of special touches to add to your stateroom, from fresh flower bouquets to buckets of champagne and strawberries.

Reservoir - The storage container that holds the liquid nutrient solution, these are usually made from 5 gallon buckets or plastic storage bins.

It's a good idea to have three or four buckets of clean water so you're not constantly dumping and refilling a single bucket.

Splash around in bubbling geysers, water cannons and 1,000-gallon tipping water buckets.

Use water in any way possible, including extinguishing torches and filling empty buckets.

You can find buckets made in materials such as silver or crystal.

Plus the buckets can look nice and be a great part of the decorations as well.

Keep spit cups or buckets available for those wanting them, but don't be surprised if they are dry at the end of the evening.

Parents should remove all water from containers, such as pails and buckets, immediately after use.

Small children have drowned or almost drowned in bathtubs, toilets, industrial-size cleaning buckets, and washing machines.

Unsupervised young children are at risk around swimming pools, bathtubs, toilets, buckets, and natural bodies of water.

It's really not necessary to use buckets or shovels; the best method for creating a sandcastle is "hand stacking", which means piling up wet sand by hand.

Condensation empties through an exhaust hose so there are no buckets to empty.

It's common to find these candles in buckets, with the assumption that a large candle will dispense the fragrance better than a small one.

Buckets, soap and sponges are all you need to get started.

Simple tools are best, including buckets, spades, trowels, and sifting screens.

A young child can drown in only a few inches of water, which means toilets and cleaning buckets are potential hazards.

Cleaning buckets full of water should never be left unattended.

Most young children also enjoy digging in the sand, filling buckets, and pouring it out.

Cover the table in brown craft paper and set up buckets of crayons for scribbling.

In addition to the drawing table, you can line a card table with craft paper and fill buckets with scissors, glue, construction paper scraps and a bundle of self-stick google eyes.

As for the pirates, they used them for storing booty during raids because of the extra room in the tops, called buckets.

Aquarius, the water-carrier, is often drawn as a man carrying buckets of water balanced across his shoulders.

You'll need to provide your own buckets, sponges, soap and towels.

Rinse your deck thoroughly with a garden hose or clean buckets of water.

While many English speakers have adopted the French word 'merci' into English, saying things like 'Mercy Buckets', the pronunciation of 'merci' should be approximated as 'mair-SEE'.

Add individual popcorn buckets and plastic cups with lids and straws for each guest to your party supply list; these can be found at dollar stores.

The tasks of cooking and cleaning was even more difficult by the fact that the children had no indoor running water and had to get buckets of water from water pumps outside.

While his helmets (affectionately known as "skull buckets" by those who used them) were used extensively in "hard hat areas" such as the construction site of the Golden Gate Bridge, the challenges of a mining helmet were different.

Apparently, Kennedy liked the restaurant's famous chowder so much when he tasted it on a campaign stopover that he took two buckets with him on the campaign trail.

Taking mincing steps so that the water wouldn't slosh out of the buckets, she worked her way toward the barn door.

He glanced at the buckets and shut the door.

She filled a plastic bowl with water for the chickens and hauled buckets of water to the horses and buffalo.

Bark provides material for string, while baskets and mats are neatly and stoutly made from canes and buckets out of bamboo and wood.

At some distance from the shaft a square water-tight wall was built, and the space between it and the shaft was filled in with sand, which was purified of all saline matter by repeated washings; on the ground-level perforated stones set at the four corners of the basin admitted the rain-water, which was discharged from the roofs by lead pipes; this water filtered through the sand and percolated into the shaft of the well, whence it was drawn in copper buckets.

They used an iron still, set in brickwork, and from a working charge of forty " buckets " of crude petroleum obtained a yield of sixteen buckets of " white naphtha."

Hoisting buckets or kibbles are employed for small (From The Colliery Engineer, May 1897.) FIG.

There are belt conveyers for discharging the gravel and tailings at the end of the vessel remote from the buckets.

The twelve constellations of the zodiac form an ingenious machine, a great wheel with buckets, which pour into the sun and moon, those shining ships that sail continually through space, the portions of light set free from the world.

From A and B the materials are drawn as they are needed into large buckets D standing on cars, which carry them to the foot of the hoist track EE, up which they are hoisted to the top of the furnace.

In the paintings we see gardens irrigated by handbuckets and shad ufs; the latter (buckets hung on a lever-pole) were probably the usual means of raising water for the fields in ancient times, and still are common in Egypt and Nubia, although water-wheels have been known.

The salt is conveyed to the furnace by a chain of buckets running on the pulley (g), and passing into the hopper (h), and through the pipe (i) is mixed with the proper amount of acid supplied by the pipe (f).

A.horizontal shaft runs length-ways through the trough, and is provided with stirring blades, arranged in such a manner that they constantly scrape the bottom, so that the salts cannot burn fast upon it, and are at the same time moved forward towards one of the ends of the trough where they are automatically removed by means of a chain of buckets.

Again, in Oporto there is an area which combines every possible sanitary defect - dense overcrowding, great poverty, no light, no air, no drainage, no scavenging, water brought in buckets.

Joints of sufficient size form water buckets; smaller ones are used as bottles, and among the Dyaks of Borneo they are employed as cooking vessels.

The Moors introduced many improvements, especially in the system of irrigation; the characteristic Portuguese wells with their perpetual chains or buckets are of Moorish invention, and retain their Moorish name of noras.

On this occasion a great crowd, especially of young people, thronged round the well with shouts of religious enthusiasm, while the servants of the well dashed buckets of water over their heads.

The elevators are provided with long spouts containing movable buckets, which can be lowered into the hold of a grain-laden vessel.

The wheat is shovelled into the pathway of the huge steam shovels, which draw it up to the ends of these spouts, where the buckets seize it, and carry it upwards into the elevator, and distribute it among the various bins according to grade.

The pause allowed him time to commandeer the buckets.

The guileless peasant set down his buckets and considered his alternatives.

Plastic 2 liter pop bottles are used with buckets to make water bongs.

Many communities set up soup kitchens where soup was cooked in buckets on coal burning braziers.

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Legs feel like lead and I'm sweating buckets in the 25 degree heat.

Older children helped in local hospitals, filled fire buckets and helped knit scarves and blankets to send to the troops.

In the first period (Italic) cremation burials closely approximating to the Villanova type are found; in the second 1 (Venetian) the tombs are constructed of blocks of stone, and situlae (bronze buckets), sometimes decorated with elaborate designs, are frequently used to contain the cinerary urns; in the third (Gallic), which begins during the 4th centilry B.C., though cremation continues, the tombs are much poorer, the ossuaries being of badly baked rough clay, and show traces of Gallic influence, and characteristics of the La-Tene civilization.

Poles may slide into large water buckets or other heavy above-ground supports to keep them in place.