1
: a usually cylindrical container with a handle : bucket
a milk pail
2
: the quantity that a pail contains
a pail of water
Examples of pail in a Sentence
A plastic beach pail was lying on the sand.
She poured a pail of water on the campfire.
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For decades, our workers have swept the streets and then put the refuse in bags next to the garbage pails on street corners.
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Peter Madonia, New York Daily News, 31 May 2025
Trump set the house on fire and then fetched a single pail of water.
—Allison Morrow, CNN Money, 13 May 2025
An estimated 90% of the core baby care products and the parts that go into making baby paraphernalia — bottles and diaper pails, strollers and car seats — are made in Asia, according to the Juvenile Products Manufacturers Assn., a U.S. trade group.
—Dee-Ann Durbin, Los Angeles Times, 21 Apr. 2025
The studio even gave her a little pail and shovel to pose with.
—Tereza Shkurtaj, People.com, 10 May 2025
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Peter Madonia, New York Daily News, 31 May 2025
Trump set the house on fire and then fetched a single pail of water.
—Allison Morrow, CNN Money, 13 May 2025
An estimated 90% of the core baby care products and the parts that go into making baby paraphernalia — bottles and diaper pails, strollers and car seats — are made in Asia, according to the Juvenile Products Manufacturers Assn., a U.S. trade group.
—Dee-Ann Durbin, Los Angeles Times, 21 Apr. 2025
The studio even gave her a little pail and shovel to pose with.
—Tereza Shkurtaj, People.com, 10 May 2025
See All Example Sentences for pail
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“Pail.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pail. Accessed 1 Jul. 2025.
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