Sentence examples for pail from inspiring English sources

Not to be confused with Nye Bevan Beyoncé beyond the pale not pail; this pale is derived from the Latin palus, a stake as used to support a fence (cf palisade); hence the figurative meaning of beyond the pale as being outside the boundary, unacceptable biannual or biennial?

The midwife must have dropped that tiny baby alive into the slops pail!

It's hardly credible that Cuddy who has the straight teeth, clear skin and glossy hair of a 21st-century movie star would be deemed as "plain as an old tin pail", or that she wouldn't be able to persuade anyone to marry her.

'That's a living child,' I said in a shaking voice, pointing at the slops pail.

"To my absolute horror, I saw a tiny foot poking out of the pail.

As one of those polled so eloquently put it, "You can't have a war, cut taxes, have the economy in a garbage pail and spend billions going into space".The proposals actually turned out to be more modest than the rumours, though they do focus the efforts of NASA, America's space agency, even more heavily on human spaceflight than at present.

Set outside the gates of Calais, it shows a chef carrying a haunch of the hard stuff destined for an English table, while a thin Frenchman slinks by with a pail of watery soup.

One collection-point manager, a tall Sikh in a pink turban, says his family is in Canada but he would not dream of quitting his job to join them.Demand for dairy products is voracious, but supply is iffy because of India's awful roads and patchy chill chain (ie, it is hard to keep milk chilled from pail to lips).

There was a low sob, and then a man's gruff voice said accusingly: 'Useless thing!'"Suddenly, I thought I heard a slight movement in the slops pail behind me," Miss Xinran remembers.

They cited the relative prosperity of the previous four years, using the campaign slogan "Four more years of the full dinner pail".

Even if you haven't seen them all in the flesh – and I'm still hoping for a sight of a harvest mouse before I hand in my dinner pail – you can become pretty familiar with most of them, and you're unlikely to be gobsmacked by anything entirely new to you.