How to Use pail in a Sentence

pail

noun

• She poured a pail of water on the campfire.
• A plastic beach pail was lying on the sand.
• So which crabs will climb over his shell to try to get to the rim of the pail?
  — Chris Stirewalt, Fox News, 30 May 2017
• There is too much garbage left in the bottom of this pail.
  — Sally Jenkins, courant.com, 13 Aug. 2019
• One of her chores was to get pails of water from a well.
  — Rukmini Callimachi, New York Times, 23 Jan. 2025
• To clean, slide the pail out of the wooden box and place it in the dishwasher.
  — Kathleen Willcox, Popular Mechanics, 28 May 2022
• In the morning, a pail of fluffy biscuits will be brought to your door.
  — Rona Berg, Forbes, 10 Oct. 2024
• Tucker’s was the place to get a homecooked meal and to stock up their lunch pails.
  — Keith Pandolfi, The Enquirer, 27 Sep. 2024
• With the crude camp in place, Wilson grabbed a pail to fetch water.
  — Scott Haugen, Outdoor Life, 16 Oct. 2024
• Teams of two camels would pull up the pails of water in a mill system.
  — Taylor Luck, The Christian Science Monitor, 2 Mar. 2023
• Those with deep pockets might still have a shot at a 5-pound pail of fries.
  — Sharyn Jackson, Star Tribune, 14 Aug. 2020
• Freeman, 32, has a co-worker in the lunch-pail brigade.
  — Los Angeles Times, 26 Aug. 2022
• Use your hand to brush away excess soil and place the bulbs in a garden pail.
  — Mary Marlowe Leverette, Southern Living, 23 Jan. 2025
• Katie Jo Knez, an 11-year-old, is hauling a very full pail of hog feed.
  — Doug Struck, The Christian Science Monitor, 25 Aug. 2017
• Flora swirled the mop, then tiredly rested it in the pail.
  — Sheila Heti, The New Yorker, 19 Jan. 2025
• Take the bareroot Wisteria and soak the roots in a pail of water for a few hours.
  — Elizabeth Gulino, House Beautiful, 16 Apr. 2019
• Put some beach grass in a galvanized pail on the table and you're done.
  — Lisa Boone, latimes.com, 26 May 2018
• Fill each pail with sweets, treats and trinkets to enjoy all month long.
  — Amanda Garrity, Good Housekeeping, 10 Nov. 2022
• That seems to be the Beavers’ identity this season, all hard hat and lunch pail.
  — Ken Goe For The Oregonian/oregonlive, oregonlive, 22 Oct. 2022
• There also were candles on the tree, so a pail of water was kept handy in case of fire.
  — Barbara Benson, chicagotribune.com, 14 Dec. 2017
• His pail of sticky cement sat next to him, and a trowel in his right hand was dripping on the floor.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 10 Sep. 2021
• Don't forget about the bottom of the trash pail too; wipe out any residue or leftover gunk.
  — Caroline Picard, Good Housekeeping, 7 Feb. 2018
• The city even offered residents a free food waste pail to use in their kitchens.
  — Karen Garciastaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 9 Feb. 2023
• Take two harvest pails to the garden—one for ripe fruit and one for rotten fruit.
  — Megan Hughes, Better Homes & Gardens, 23 Mar. 2023
• Add a gardening tool or a water pail, a bow, and you are set!
  — Courier Journal Staff, The Courier-Journal, 11 Nov. 2021
• The biggest challenge has been the hunt for water—to drink, clean clothes and bathe themselves with a cup and pail.
  — Arian Campo-Flores, WSJ, 13 Oct. 2017
• He and his wife, Lida, 68, bicycle here twice a day to fill a pail.
  — Serhii Korolchuk, Washington Post, 28 June 2022
• Nick’s a hard-hat, lunch-pail type guy who comes to work every single day.
  — Gary Bedore, kansascity, 10 May 2018
• Adding to their misery, meals were served out of two big steel pails pushed around on a cart by a couple of trusties.
  — Richard Selcer, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 13 July 2024
• In the clip, the newly platinum blonde actress held a shopping bag in one hand and a bright red pail in the other, walking down a beachy path.
  — Paul Du Quenoy, MSNBC Newsweek, 27 Mar. 2025