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
On a crisp Saturday morning that screamed for adventure, a former tin can factory in North Kansas City, Mo. thrummed with the sound of young people climbing, sliding, spinning, jumping, exploring and reading.
From New York Times ● Apr. 1, 2024
Every day is harder than the last, a Gazan woman reports through a tin can transmitter.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 30, 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
