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

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

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

These are my main communications with my brother now, these raspy tin can words, sentences without vowels, the Morse of feet.

From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood