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Recent Examples of tin canAny one of them could hold 48,000 bananas or 24,000 tin cans or maybe 12,000 shoe boxes.—Ronald D. White, Los Angeles Times, 23 June 2024 Length: 16 hours, 7 minutes Project Hail Mary, Andy Weir
For those trapped in a tin can for just over 16 hours, channel your inner-Major Tom with Andy Weir’s space drama, Project Hail Mary.—Shannon Carlin, TIME, 21 June 2024 The sheet that had been covering me was sopping wet and smelled strangely of my body, tin cans, and cayenne pepper.—Emily Harnett, Harper's Magazine, 24 Apr. 2024 The tin can easily be reused to store small items like a sewing kit, small toys, or Christmas cards.—Marissa Wu, Southern Living, 20 Oct. 2022 See all Example Sentences for tin can
Here and elsewhere, guests are handed metal bottles on arrival, to use and refill from glass carafes of water in their mini fridges or from large canisters in the common areas.
John Corrigan,
Los Angeles Times,
31 Oct. 2024
The canister was filled to the max with dust, pet hair, and (grossly) my own.
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