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
Benji also manages to open a door with a skeleton key and execute the time-honored gag of jumping on a garbage pail, then onto a Dumpster top, then to a fire-escape ladder, with great aplomb.
From New York Times • Mar. 9, 2018
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
