pail
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Dan and Craig went up the hill to fetch a pail of glory.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 18, 2026
Our toddler’s diaper pail in the hollow of a crawl space mixed with the remnants of the dining room.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 20, 2025
The simplicity of a brain plopped in a pail for scientific research becomes something of a mordant sight gag.
From New York Times ● Mar. 13, 2024
Robinson’s updated pail had separate compartments for food and liquids, and was designed so items within could be heated using a small lamp.
From Salon ● Jan. 16, 2024
“I forgot them. Here we are starving and the limpets are swimming around in their pail behind the stone wall outside. They must think they’re arrived in a strange wee ocean.”
From "Nory Ryan’s Song" by Patricia Reilly Giff
These mosquitoes breed in stagnant water like pails, vases and flowerpot plates.
From BBC ● Jul. 23, 2026
The coach handed out metal lunch pails and blue-collar work shirts customized with embroidered name tags to symbolize the team’s hard-working mentality.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 17, 2025
Video taken by a bystander shows about 20 adults trying to dig her out using their hands and plastic pails, but the hole kept collapsing on itself.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 21, 2024
My invention is an improvement in dinner pails for workmen; and it consists in the peculiar construction and combination of devices that will be more fully set forth hereinafter.
From Salon ● Jan. 16, 2024
She removes the pails from her plank and hits at something on the grassy bank.
From "First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers" by Loung Ung
