pail

Example Sentences

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I was relaxing to the steady splashing of the milk hitting the pail when I heard a rustling noise.

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And then I dart toward a large crowd and swing my burlap sack against a tower of stacked fire pails.

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I roll up the dirty diaper and stuff it in the overflowing diaper pail.

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Unfortunately, the children had learned the words according to the way they sounded, rather than what they actually meant, so that “All hail to our founder” became “A pail full of flounder” and so on.

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“The most elemental device is a metal pail with a tight cover.”

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