bucketful

Example Sentences

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I have friends who choke down Greek yogurt by the bucketful, who eat handfuls of grilled chicken at a time, who dead lift their own body weight.

From The Wall Street Journal

She remembered trailing behind her grandmother cutting roses in her garden, lugging bucketfuls of flowers and inhaling the sweetness.

From Los Angeles Times

She added her clams to a bucketful in the canoe, secured the empty pouch back at her waist, held her nostrils closed with one hand, and dived back in.

From Literature

And with each theme comes a bucketful of research on related topics.

From New York Times

“We are losing older drinkers by the bucketful, but only gaining new ones by the thimbleful,” Mr. Menezes was quoted as saying in 1999 in The Scotsman newspaper.

From New York Times