How to Use bucket brigade in a Sentence

bucket brigade

noun

• The bucket brigade saved it and the century-old one-room schoolhouse next door, but not Chapin House.
  — New York Times, 4 Mar. 2018
• About 50 islanders and park rangers, forming a bucket brigade, needed five hours to put out the fire.
  — New York Times, 4 Mar. 2018
• People formed bucket brigades to carry water to throw on the flames.
  — Mary Jane Brewer, cleveland, 12 Feb. 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
• 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
• Eventually, the group came up with a workaround for the bucket brigade.
  — Will McCarthy, Anchorage Daily News, 22 Sep. 2022
• Coloring stations, spray down, tug of war and bucket brigade, food and more.
  — Luann Gibbs, The Enquirer, 8 Aug. 2022
• 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
• 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
• 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
• If Facebook’s worst posts resemble dumpster fires, these three lead the bucket brigade.
  — Michal Lev-Ram, Fortune, 22 May 2018
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• The gay bookstore, the bucket brigades, the village hall, the camaraderie, the local banners held high: This is what democracy looks like when people organize together in place.
  — Micah L. Sifry, The New Republic, 15 Jan. 2020
• 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
• In a video recorded Thursday by a Carnival Dream passenger, crew members formed a bucket brigade and waded through ankle-deep water in one soaked hallway.
  — CBS News, 7 May 2018
• The principle is simple: Instead of just a single router bristling with antennas, why not have a little one on every floor or in every room, all passing bits, like a bucket brigade, to the farthest reaches of your domicile?
  — Christopher Mims, WSJ, 11 Sep. 2017
• 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

Last Updated: 27 Jul 2024