tin can
Example Sentences
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Residents have responded in kind, posting a picture of a tin can phone to signal their slide back to the pre-digital age.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 14, 2026
Movies to be watched on planes, making bearable the three or nine hours spent in a tin can, squashed on all sides, munching tiny pretzels and trying not to order yet another gin and tonic.
From New York Times • Apr. 18, 2024
Every day is harder than the last, a Gazan woman reports through a tin can transmitter.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 30, 2023
To imagine why these issues arise, picture yourself in a tin can with a small crew, a deadly environment outside, a monotonous schedule, an unnatural daytime-nighttime cycle and mission controllers constantly on your case.
From Scientific American • Sep. 19, 2023
Sitting ’round a desk that was covered with newspapers and a cut-in-half tin can fulled up with cigar butts was two men.
From "The Journey of Little Charlie" by Christopher Paul Curtis
