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
"You're kind of trapped in a tin can that's not designed for roaming around," Ally recalls.
From BBC • Mar. 9, 2025
He was a mostly self-taught golfer who had fashioned a swing using a branch from a guava tree for a club and a crushed tin can for a ball.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 9, 2024
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
Even a tin can with an inch of water in it can be the birthplace of hundreds of hungry and potentially dangerous mosquitoes.
From "An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793" by Jim Murphy
