garbage pail
Example Sentences
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A garbage pail is placed in one corner in case, well, you know.
From Washington Times • Apr. 25, 2023
A garbage pail and a plastic bucket in a makeshift stall suggested a shower.
From Seattle Times • Oct. 3, 2022
A small canoe floated, upside down, by a garbage pail.
From The Guardian • Sep. 16, 2018
Capitals won one road game that year — 5-3 over the California Golden Seals — and players famously celebrated by passing a garbage pail around the locker room as if it were the Stanley Cup.
From Washington Post • Nov. 23, 2017
M. Minkoff Ignatius folded the letter violently; then he rolled the folded Macy’s bag into a ball and heaved it into the garbage pail.
From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole
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