Sentence examples for filling pails from inspiring English sources

For the first time, the occupants' needs for water could be met without relying on the time-honoured system of filling pails and carrying them where required.

A few women with the braids, high cheekbones, and small, square build of the Sherpas were filling pails and old kerosene tins with water from a public tap on the road.

Filling the pail with cleaning solution and water, mopping, rinsing the pail, mopping with water, repeat.

So each morning, people rise before the sun and stumble from their huts, beneath the arching canopy of a starry sky, to fill metal pails with the small, foul-smelling hacha fruit.

I filled a pail of water and put it on the kitchen counter.

She filled the pail, ran back to the woman, and poured the water on her feet.

He filled the pail with water from the bathroom and soap powder from under the table beside the icebox.

They had almost finished blooming, so I grabbed my secateurs, filled a pail with warm water, and went out to cut some flowers for the house.

He kept some sheep and had a wife, whom I saw only once, when she was filling the drinking pail at the pump.

This involves filling up a bucket with water and using a pail to pour it over yourself.

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