PAIL in a Sentence

Learn PAIL from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

30 example sentences for PAIL, such as:

1. Education is not the filling of a pail but the lighting of a fire.
2. The ravenous dog upset several garbage pails in its search for food.
3. All his furniture consisted of a bed, a chair, a table, a pail, and a jug.
4. Jim came skipping out at the gate with a tin pail, and singing Buffalo Gals.
5. And a white circle marked the place where the slop pail had stood by the washstand.

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 Meanings and Examples of PAIL
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pail
 n.  a roughly cylindrical vessel that is open at the top
 n.  the quantity contained in a pail
Classic Sentence: (28 in 2 pages)
1  Jim came skipping out at the gate with a tin pail, and singing Buffalo Gals.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
2  He put down his pail, took the white alley, and bent over the toe with absorbing interest while the bandage was being unwound.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
3  The poor woman can hardly drag herself along, and she must now drag the pail home from the fountain.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian Andersen
Context  Highlight   In THE DREAM OF LITTLE TUK
4  The bird hastened to fetch some water, but his pail fell into the well, and he after it, and as he was unable to recover himself, he was drowned.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
Context  Highlight   In THE MOUSE, THE BIRD, AND THE SAUSAGE
5  All his furniture consisted of a bed, a chair, a table, a pail, and a jug.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 15. Number 34 and Number 27.
6  The table and chair had nothing, the pail had once possessed a handle, but that had been removed.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 15. Number 34 and Number 27.
7  As she did so, the woman paused in her work and looked up curiously, resting her clenched red fists on the wet cloth she had just drawn from her pail.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 1
8  The woman, without answering, pushed her pail aside, and continued to stare as Miss Bart swept by with a murmur of silken linings.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 1
9  She heard our wagon, looked back over her shoulder, and, catching up her pail of water, started at a run for the hole in the bank.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: X
10  The water which the youth handed to them in a tin pail was not cold to taste, but it was cool to her heated face, and it greatly revived and refreshed her.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In XIII
11  He was very busy marshaling the little black vagabonds of tin cups and pouring into them the streaming iron colored mixture from a small and sooty tin pail.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 14
12  Bulls which had always been tractable suddenly turned savage, sheep broke down hedges and devoured the clover, cows kicked the pail over, hunters refused their fences and shot their riders on to the other side.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter IV
13  You can't expect it brought to your door in a pail of water," said Mrs. Swithin, "as I remember when we were children, living in a house by the sea.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 2
14  And a white circle marked the place where the slop pail had stood by the washstand.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 5
15  He made fast the pail to the long coil of rope, put it over the wheel, and allowed it to descend by letting the rope slip through his hands.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: 3 The First Act in a Timeworn Drama
Example Sentence:
1  Education is not the filling of a pail but the lighting of a fire.
2  The ravenous dog upset several garbage pails in its search for food.