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Recent Examples of pail
And, that there was a goblin, squatting in my skull, rattling a metal pail full of bolts and hissing failure, rot, spoil.
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Literary Hub, 15 Oct. 2025
Filtering through the magnitude of product options is a full-time job—the sheer range of items, from cotton swaddles to monitors to diaper pails, exemplifies the paradox of choice.
—Cortne Bonilla, Vogue, 14 Oct. 2025
Hot water for coffee dangled in a metal pail.
—Caity Weaver, The Atlantic, 8 Oct. 2025
Burger King has its own pail for fans landing sooner than McDonald’s.
—Sabrina Weiss, PEOPLE, 2 Oct. 2025
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Literary Hub, 15 Oct. 2025
Filtering through the magnitude of product options is a full-time job—the sheer range of items, from cotton swaddles to monitors to diaper pails, exemplifies the paradox of choice.
—Cortne Bonilla, Vogue, 14 Oct. 2025
Hot water for coffee dangled in a metal pail.
—Caity Weaver, The Atlantic, 8 Oct. 2025
Burger King has its own pail for fans landing sooner than McDonald’s.
—Sabrina Weiss, PEOPLE, 2 Oct. 2025
See All Example Sentences for pail
Recent Examples of Synonyms for pail
bucket
Noun
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For Spears, Glory is a drop in the bucket of her legacy, and that’s OK.—
Larisha Paul,
Rolling Stone,
28 Jan. 2026
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Baldoni and these other buckets of dumb-dumb-juice should be acknowledging the speculation and gossip themselves.—
Lauren Huff,
Entertainment Weekly,
28 Jan. 2026
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“Pail.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pail. Accessed 5 Feb. 2026.
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