pail
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The reality is, however, she can’t and won’t; at some point, the bell rings and she must put on her coveralls and shake the pail of lip liners in front of us.
From Slate ● Aug. 5, 2026
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
For instance, in 1887, John Robinson, a Black inventor from West Virginia, filed a patent for a pail.
From Salon ● Jan. 16, 2024
We use one pail for shells and one for rocks so that the shells don’t get broken.
From "Shouting at the Rain" by Lynda Mullaly Hunt
These mosquitoes breed in stagnant water like pails, vases and flowerpot plates.
From BBC ● Jul. 23, 2026
If you’d asked that question around Southern California even into the 1950s, the answer would have been a big full-dairy-fat “yes,” pails and gallons and maybe even acre-feet of milk.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 14, 2026
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
Philip Turner vomited into a janitor’s sink surrounded by mops and pails.
From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy
