bucket brigade
noun
: a chain of persons acting to put out a fire by passing buckets of water from hand to hand
Example Sentences
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Luann Gibbs, The Enquirer, 8 Aug. 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 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 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 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 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 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. Agnes Chang, ProPublica, 13 June 2011 See More
Luann Gibbs, The Enquirer, 8 Aug. 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 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 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 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 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 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. Agnes Chang, ProPublica, 13 June 2011 See More Word History
First Known Use
1899, in the meaning defined above