Sentence examples for bucket being from inspiring English sources

I looked like an old lard bucket being hauled down the mountain.

(Etymologists suggest that the bucket being kicked is not, as we might imagine, a pail, but a corruption of the Old French word buquet, meaning a balance or beam, from which slaughtered animals were suspended).

Though no one seems to mind too much about the jocular "pop one's clogs" (either from the sense of "pop" meaning "pawn", or an elaboration of "to pop off", also meaning to croak), or "kick the bucket" (the "bucket" being the wooden frame on which a pig to be slaughtered was hung).

In one condition, the subject chimpanzee observed two buckets being bated, and the competetor chimpanzee only observed one bucket being bated.

Never mind the frantic rummaging going on down below with a bucket being knocked over; I'm topside with my free hand over my mouth, stifling my laughter and proud of my ingenuity with this prank.

This can be conceptualized as a hydrostatic steady state, such as a bucket being filled with water at a constant rate (mucin synthesis) and draining from an outlet (mucin secretion) at the same rate.

A bit bucket is a data sink.

A bucket is placed on his head.

Unfortunately, the bucket wasn't meant for spitting.

The yellow bucket was again in great demand.

Even the bucket is not that important anymore".