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
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
This immediately summons for me an image from “The Friend” in which the protagonist uses a child’s pail and shovel to clean up after the Great Dane she has been tasked to care for.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 15, 2023
Pa called, “Caroline, if you’ll come take this pail of honey, I’ll go unhitch.”
From "Little House in the Big Woods" by Laura Ingalls Wilder
Disney began selling simple souvenir popcorn pails in the 1990s and in 2010 introduced a 3D container modeled after Micky Mouse.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 6, 2026
“Since the mid-19th century, miners, factory workers, dock hands, and other laborers have used sturdy dinner pails to hold hard-boiled eggs, vegetables, meat, coffee, pie, and other hardy fare.”
From Salon ● Jan. 16, 2024
She boils straw to kill any bacteria, then layers it with sawdust spawn in pails with holes drilled in them where the mushrooms will emerge.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 13, 2023
“I recall my daily trips to the common village pump to bring home pails of water for our needs. And I read the few available books by sitting close to a candle in the evenings.”
From New York Times ● Mar. 22, 2023
I looked like I belonged on the hills of Switzerland with milk pails.
From "From Twinkle, with Love" by Sandhya Menon
