How to Use bucket brigade in a Sentence

bucket brigade

noun
  • Throngs of laborers in shorts and saris form a bucket brigade.
    — Curbed, 17 Feb. 2022
  • People formed bucket brigades to carry water to throw on the flames.
    — Mary Jane Brewer, cleveland, 12 Feb. 2020
  • Coloring stations, spray down, tug of war and bucket brigade, food and more.
    — Luann Gibbs, The Enquirer, 8 Aug. 2022
  • The fire department was little more than a bucket brigade.
    — Arkansas Online, 19 May 2026
  • Neighbors formed a bucket brigade to move water from a nearby river.
    — Matthew Thompson, New York Times, 10 Nov. 2022
  • Eventually, the group came up with a workaround for the bucket brigade.
    — Will McCarthy, Anchorage Daily News, 22 Sep. 2022
  • About 50 islanders and park rangers, forming a bucket brigade, needed five hours to put out the fire.
    — New York Times, 4 Mar. 2018
  • If Facebook’s worst posts resemble dumpster fires, these three lead the bucket brigade.
    — Michal Lev-Ram, Fortune, 22 May 2018
  • The bucket brigade saved it and the century-old one-room schoolhouse next door, but not Chapin House.
    — New York Times, 4 Mar. 2018
  • But as soon as the catamaran’s ladder drops on the beach, there’s another bucket brigade forming.
    — Paul P. Murphy, CNN, 12 Aug. 2023
  • Her daughter and her grandson come over with friends to help her restock, everyone joining in a bucket brigade from to the yard to the shed.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 13 June 2020
  • When an apartment building was shelled on March 17, residents formed a bucket brigade to the fifth floor to put out the fire.
    — Washington Post, 15 Apr. 2022
  • The Egyptians, thousands of years ago, watered some pretty barren hillsides with a six mile bucket brigade.
    — David Sarasohn, The New Republic, 12 Apr. 2018
  • Each spring on the brushy banks of the San Juan River, a bucket brigade assembles twice daily.
    — Zak Podmore, The Salt Lake Tribune, 3 Apr. 2022
  • Kim stood in the middle of a bucket brigade passing cardboard boxes full of chips to another student volunteer.
    — Karina Elwood, Washington Post, 7 Apr. 2023
  • The biggest change has been the bucket brigade of offensive support for scoring anchor Matt Bradley.
    — Bryce Miller Columnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Mar. 2022
  • The sharp drop in steam pressure also shut down both bilge pumps, so both passengers and crew worked strenuously as part of a bucket brigade to fight off the rising water.
    — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 6 Dec. 2022
  • The bucket brigade can also be seen as how our love, praise, and consideration for others are passed on from person to person, reaching people far away.
    — Billboard Japan, Billboard, 29 Sep. 2023
  • Like a mechanical bucket brigade, giant excavators then relay the waste to the top, more than 150 feet above.
    — New York Times, 11 Apr. 2020
  • Desperate locals have dug 60 feet down into a dry river bed in search of water, passing the murky mix up in a bucket brigade to a trough where herders wait with thirsty cattle.
    — Michael M. Phillips, WSJ, 12 Sep. 2022
  • Soon, Lincoln was helping with a bucket brigade from Lake Michigan to the warehouse, according to news reports at the time.
    — Jim Newton, chicagotribune.com, 1 Nov. 2017
  • Clad in bell bottoms, a t-shirt and sandals, Moody began a bucket brigade as 40 friends pounded sledgehammers into the basement floor to expand the basement.
    — Sofia Krusmark, The Arizona Republic, 20 Dec. 2021
  • Cabinet members held a series of briefings to describe efforts to get freight trains, trucks and more ships into what amounted to a complex bucket brigade to bring fuel up the East Coast.
    — New York Times, 12 May 2021
  • Bogaard said crews capture and move 20% to 25% of the razorback suckers that get trapped below the waterfall each year, meaning most fish don’t benefit from the bucket brigade.
    — Zak Podmore, The Salt Lake Tribune, 3 Apr. 2022
  • In the Condesa neighborhood, hundreds of volunteers laid out blankets for survivors Tuesday night and formed bucket brigades to pass water into the disaster zone.
    — Eric Martin, Bloomberg.com, 20 Sep. 2017
  • Rather than join this emergency bucket brigade, the same Democrats who accuse Republicans of divisiveness stayed busy draining these buckets, and letting the financial fires blaze more brightly.
    — Deroy Murdock, National Review, 19 Apr. 2020

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