The bucket can hold at the most b tokens.

"Someone finally figured out that the bucket won't hold together for more than one invasion, anyway," he theorized.

A bucket of ice held a couple of interesting bottles.

Used to express capacity or capability: This bucket will hold two gallons of water.

Another bucket held water, skimmed over with ice.

With the changer, the maximum amount of water that will drain at one time is 12 quarts, about what a bucket holds.

A bucket holds an odd assortment of old clock hands.

Its bucket could hold nearly three times the amount of its earlier, smaller brother.

Yawning widely, the bucket held in her arms, she climbed back upstairs.

It is like saying a bucket would hold the ocean if it were fulfilled, which only means filled full.