tin can

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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

So when the Dixie Fire struck, she packed items she couldn’t replace — the ashes of her two deceased dogs, antique meat grinders, and several tin cans and glass bottles collected from Greenville’s long-defunct mines.

From Washington Post

So when the Dixie fire struck, she packed items she couldn’t replace — the ashes of her two deceased dogs, antique meat grinders, and several tin cans and glass bottles collected from Greenville’s long-defunct mines.

From Seattle Times

Fairbanks packed the ashes of her two deceased dogs, several tin cans and glass bottles she had collected from Greenville’s long-defunct mines and a used copy of a Ralph Waldo Emerson book.

From Washington Post

But they also recommended that safeguard measures on nine products - including tin cans used in packaging - are revoked because there was either no or "no significant" increase in imports over the period.

From BBC