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• Hallam took a can of Molson Export out of the lunch pail.2007, Michael Blair, The Dells: A Joe Shoe Mystery, Toronto: Dundurn Press, page 132. From the entry Molson muscle
• “Ryan, borrow me your lunch pail so we can fill it with blueberries.2005, Gladys Blyth, Summer at the Cannery, Trafford Publishing, →ISBN, page 83. From the entry borrow
• And a gorgeous slop pail covered in the proverbial violets, would you believe?”1984, Josephine Boyle, chapter 3, in A Spectre in the Hall, London: Judy Piatkus (Publishers) Limited, →ISBN, page 57. From the entry fishkettle
• Toast Melba, butter, an ice pail, all the adjuncts to a meal of quality.1937, Agatha Christie, Death on the Nile. From the entry deft-handed
• Plick was an inventor and had invented a noiseless garbage pail with undentable sides.1933, Robert Earle Galbraith, These our moderns. From the entry undentable
• "I had foreseen it and I had put some cholesterine among the paraffin in the zinc pail."1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “(please specify the chapter number)”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html)…. From the entry cholesterine
• The pails are made to hold 14 quarts, and are said to be nonfreezing, nonevaporating and noncorrosive.1903 June 18, The Iron Age, volume 71, page 73. From the entry nonevaporating
• She scrambled to her feet and, trying not to step on them, gathered all the unsquished blackberries back in the pail.2021, Natasha Lowe, The Daring of Della Dupree, page 47. From the entry unsquished
• Wet pails have largely fallen out of favour.2021, Bailey Bouwman, Cloth Diapers: The Ultimate Guide to Textiles, Washing & More, Simply Bailey Social Marketing, →ISBN, page 195. From the entry dry pail
• Many families successfully store dirty diapers in a wet bag or dry pail and wash on wash day.2021, Bailey Bouwman, Cloth Diapers: The Ultimate Guide to Textiles, Washing & More, Simply Bailey Social Marketing, →ISBN, page 195. From the entry dry pail
• You do not need to use a wet pail to soak your diapers in water or any other solution between washings.2017 July 24, Stephanie Planchak, ClothDiaperKids.com. From the entry wet pail
• First I lost my lunch pail and the teacher wouldn't let me go to the office for help.2009, Elizabeth Marie Galloway-Evans, Embracing the Gift of Parenthood, page 85. From the entry oh really
• My pail flew out of my hand and the few berries I'd gathered scattered onto the forest floor.2008, Donna Milner, After River, London: Quercus, →ISBN, page 63. From the entry gibbled
• If his father miswielded his crutch and accidentally toppled the water bucket, Revas swore he'd left the pail in the way.1995, Arnette Lamb, Carolyn Tolley, Maiden of Inverness, page 2. From the entry miswield
• She filled the pail and carried it down to the springhouse to crock it and leave it to cool.1970, Donald Harington, Lightning Bug. From the entry crock
• Items seen at the Hardware Trades Fair-saucepans, a kettle, a bread or cake tin, and a nappy pail.1962, Hardware Trade Journal, volume 265, Benn Brothers, page 49. From the entry nappy pail
• H&S Hardware Store will present baby with a porcelain sanitary diaper pail and Schottenstein's Department Store, a potty chart.1959 January 8, “Bradley J. Hafey Is First 1959 Baby Born In The South Side”, in South Side Leader, volume VII, number 42, page 1. From the entry potty chart
• A full dinner pail is a necessity.1955, Adlai Stevenson II, “Support of unions on strike”, in Report of Proceedings (American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial…. From the entry live by bread alone
• Attach the rubber tubing to the drainpipe of the ice chamber and place the end in a pail.1947, Albert Henry Andrews, Manual of oxygen therapy techniques. From the entry drainpipe
• Sometimes late at night men would come in with a pail of winkles they had bought cheap, and share them out.1933 January 9, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter XXV, in Down and Out in Paris and London, London: Victor Gollancz…. From the entry winkle
• Now she could hear a man clatter over the cobbles and the jing-jang of the pails he carried.1918 September 7, [Katherine Mansfield], “Short Studies”, in The Nation, volume XXIII, number 23, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 596. From the entry jing-jang
• So I commenced to yell, And old man Pease he hugged his knees and gaffled to his pail.1916, Holman Day, Up in Maine: Stories of Yankee Life Told in Verse, page 189. From the entry gaffle
• Cephas got a gourdful of water from the pail in the sink, and carried it carefully over to the table.1900, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, Pembroke. From the entry gourdful
• Though he had an area of sorts to work in, the flat was small, the children noisy and the nappy pail full.2007, Zachary Leader, The Life of Kingsley Amis, Vintage, →ISBN, page 100. From the entry nappy pail
• The pail of golompkies hit him in the side of the head with a sound as ungodly as a forty-pound pumpkin dropped from Ponky Bridge.2005, Bob Flaherty, “Red”, in Puff: A Novel, New York, N.Y.: Perennial, →ISBN, page 158. From the entry golompkies
• He brought me a pail and a stool, and held out the round tin of dubbin for me to grease the teats.1978, André Brink, Rumours of Rain, Vintage, published 2000, page 295. From the entry dubbin
• It is filled with the odors of brine and seaweed and codlivers gathered into pails by deft fingers as the fish are cleaned.1942, Dorothy Duncan, Bluenose: A Portrait of Nova Scotia, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, pages 231–259; republished in Brian…. From the entry codliver
• She was beating something in a pail, beating it with her hands; her arms were blobbed with pink froth to the elbows.1941, Emily Carr, chapter 20, in Klee Wyck. From the entry blob
• He, who had eaten the leavings from firemen’s pails in round-houses and “scoffed” mulligan-stews at water-tanks, had learned thoroughly the worth of money.1916 April, Jack London, The Little Lady of the Big House, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, →OCLC. From the entry mulligan stew
• Notice to hostile Injuns — Next time you massacree this settlement, bring back the pail, and don't leave the covers off the milk pans.1903, Ernest Thompson Seton, Two Little Savages. From the entry massacree
• Two heavy pails of swill—meat scraps floating in custard—from the school kitchens to be carried with a friend, Hans Solish, all the way to the piggery.2022, Ian McEwan, Lessons, page 99. From the entry piggery
• They either end up stuck in his playpen, in the pail, turned into a plush, turned into a diapercritter or even just a plain diaper on his hips!2020 October 15, @CalDromeda, Twitter. From the entry diapercritter
• Dry pail versus wet pail: In a dry pail system, the dirty diapers and cloth wipes are just placed in a diaper pail, with no extra water.2011, Peggy Wilson, The Naturally Frugal Baby, 2 edition, Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 93. From the entry wet pail
• We took our time preparing for our afternoon out, dressing the baby in a swimming diaper and swimsuit; packing up towels, pail, shovel, hats and sunglasses; slathering on sunblock.2006, Rebecca Martorella, Tales from the Mom Front: The Misadventures of a First-Time Mom, iUniverse, →ISBN. From the entry swimming diaper
• Kristina Pankofska, a Polish exile whom Anna Petrovna paid a gold rouble a month to clean and help, arrived with a pail of hot kasha and two new eggs.2005, James Meek, The People's Act of Love, Canongate, published 2006, page 171. From the entry kasha
• Fire districts were established with restrictions for buildings, wells provided the first water supplies, and fire equipment was limited to the hand-carried variety—buckets, pails, fire extinguishers, etc.2003, Michael J. Legeros, Raleigh and Wake County Firefighting, →ISBN, page 1909. From the entry hand-carried
• For the very young, there is an extensive children’s menu, with some items served in a McDonald’s-esque orange plastic sand pail with a shovel on the side.1993 September 5, Robert Preer, “For venerable Howard Johnson’s restaurants, a second serving”, in Boston Sunday Globe, volume 244, number…. From the entry McDonald's-esque

Meaning of pail

1. noun A vessel of wood, tin, plastic, etc., usually cylindrical and having a handle -- used especially for carrying liquids, for example water or milk; a bucket (sometimes with a cover).
2. noun A closed (covered) cylindrical shipping container.

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Questions about pail in a sentence

How do you use pail in a sentence?

Pail is used as a noun. For example: “The milkmaid carried a pail of milk in each hand.”

What is a short sentence with pail?

“A full dinner pail is a necessity.”

What does pail mean?

Pail means a vessel of wood, tin, plastic, etc., usually cylindrical and having a handle -- used especially for carrying liquids, for example water or milk; a bucket (sometimes with a cover).