Sentence examples for pail which from inspiring English sources

Rubble has to be carried out pail by pail, which at least provides jobs.

On Nov. 13, 1894, in Chicago, the inventor Frederick Weeks Wilcox patented a version of what he called a "paper pail," which was a single piece of paper, creased into segments and folded into a (more or less) leakproof container secured with a dainty wire handle on top.

This pail, into which the user would defecate, was removed and emptied by the local authority on a regular basis.

The problem was exacerbated by a gradual switch from the 1870s onwards from the older cesspit methods of sewage disposal to pail closets, which required regular emptying.

This is a unique team, in that they've never, ever, ever, in all those years, had a lunch-pail persona, which is really what this team is now.

She had stopped by the well to draw up a pail of water, which she brought to wash herself.

They've already released books for the Mars Attacks cards and the Garbage Pail Kids cards, which were both great.

The director, Jessica Bauman, stages action deftly (especially nice is a wordless bit in which pails are handed back and forth from the house to the barn) and has assembled a fine production team.

It was lovely not to have to empty the square pail under the icebox, which often overflowed since I rarely remembered to do it on time.

The boards were scorching; every 10 yards there were little pails of water with which you could cool your stinging soles.

My husband was holding onto a white picket fence with one hand and my wrist with the other as I stood ankle deep in marsh, valiantly trying to scoop up a half-pail of stagnant water, which I hoped would be riddled with paramecia and amoebas.