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

All of which makes the decision to play in the round, packed like sardines in a crushed tin can, all the more significant.

From BBC • Nov. 21, 2025

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

A tin can on the counter, lid open.

From "The Help" by Kathryn Stockett