How to Use pail in a Sentence

pail

noun

• She poured a pail of water on the campfire.
• A plastic beach pail was lying on the sand.
• So which crabs will climb over his shell to try to get to the rim of the pail?
  — Chris Stirewalt, Fox News, 30 May 2017
• There is too much garbage left in the bottom of this pail.
  — Sally Jenkins, courant.com, 13 Aug. 2019
• To clean, slide the pail out of the wooden box and place it in the dishwasher.
  — Kathleen Willcox, Popular Mechanics, 28 May 2022
• Teams of two camels would pull up the pails of water in a mill system.
  — Taylor Luck, The Christian Science Monitor, 2 Mar. 2023
• Those with deep pockets might still have a shot at a 5-pound pail of fries.
  — Sharyn Jackson, Star Tribune, 14 Aug. 2020
• Freeman, 32, has a co-worker in the lunch-pail brigade.
  — Los Angeles Times, 26 Aug. 2022
• Katie Jo Knez, an 11-year-old, is hauling a very full pail of hog feed.
  — Doug Struck, The Christian Science Monitor, 25 Aug. 2017
• Take the bareroot Wisteria and soak the roots in a pail of water for a few hours.
  — Elizabeth Gulino, House Beautiful, 16 Apr. 2019
• Put some beach grass in a galvanized pail on the table and you're done.
  — Lisa Boone, latimes.com, 26 May 2018
• Fill each pail with sweets, treats and trinkets to enjoy all month long.
  — Amanda Garrity, Good Housekeeping, 10 Nov. 2022
• That seems to be the Beavers’ identity this season, all hard hat and lunch pail.
  — Ken Goe For The Oregonian/oregonlive, oregonlive, 22 Oct. 2022
• There also were candles on the tree, so a pail of water was kept handy in case of fire.
  — Barbara Benson, chicagotribune.com, 14 Dec. 2017
• His pail of sticky cement sat next to him, and a trowel in his right hand was dripping on the floor.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 10 Sep. 2021
• Don't forget about the bottom of the trash pail too; wipe out any residue or leftover gunk.
  — Caroline Picard, Good Housekeeping, 7 Feb. 2018
• The city even offered residents a free food waste pail to use in their kitchens.
  — Karen Garciastaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 9 Feb. 2023
• Take two harvest pails to the garden—one for ripe fruit and one for rotten fruit.
  — Megan Hughes, Better Homes & Gardens, 23 Mar. 2023
• Add a gardening tool or a water pail, a bow, and you are set!
  — Courier Journal Staff, The Courier-Journal, 11 Nov. 2021
• The biggest challenge has been the hunt for water—to drink, clean clothes and bathe themselves with a cup and pail.
  — Arian Campo-Flores, WSJ, 13 Oct. 2017
• He and his wife, Lida, 68, bicycle here twice a day to fill a pail.
  — Serhii Korolchuk, Washington Post, 28 June 2022
• Nick’s a hard-hat, lunch-pail type guy who comes to work every single day.
  — Gary Bedore, kansascity, 10 May 2018
• Adding to their misery, meals were served out of two big steel pails pushed around on a cart by a couple of trusties.
  — Richard Selcer, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 13 July 2024
• The pails will be delivered to the homes of the fewer than 4,000 customers who ordered them.
  — Sven Berg, idahostatesman, 2 June 2017
• That year, the green pail was a monster, orange was a skeleton and white was a mummy.
  — Virginia Chamlee, People.com, 5 Oct. 2024
• The new rules also say each kid in a sandbox must have his or her own shovel and pail.
  — Steve Rubenstein, SFChronicle.com, 14 Oct. 2020
• This year, the green pail is a monster, orange is a skeleton and white is a mummy.
  — Erin Clements, Peoplemag, 10 Oct. 2023
• A minute later, the pair dipped the glass in a pail of water to slightly cool it; this allows the glass to better mold.
  — Orange County Register, 9 Jan. 2017
• Treat the bottom of the trail pail with the same level of care by wiping out any residue, gunk, or leftover food.
  — Caroline Picard, Good Housekeeping, 30 Mar. 2020
• The pails, come in a new color, blue, replacing last year's purple color.
  — Max Hauptman, USA TODAY, 15 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 12 Nov 2024